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Moated site

Lackeen, County Cork, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Moated site, Lackeen, County Cork, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Lackeen
County
Cork
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
Lismonilleen (1937)
Coordinates
52.27276, -8.76756
SMR number
CO016-028----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1883 · Ireland 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In level rough grazing. Trapezium-shaped area (76m N-S; at N side 59.6m E-W; at S side 35m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1.2m) with external fosse (D 1m) and shallow second fosse (D 0.2m) c. 3m outside first. Bank survives best on E side where there is break at N end. On S side bank noticeably lower. West bank low and wide with breaks in two places (near S end: Wth 4m; near N end: Wth 2.1m). Break in N bank (Wth 7m) close to W end, now blocked by stone wall with 1m gap remaining; bank to E of gap wide with outer face raised and shallow depression inside; lime kiln (ruined) incorporated into NE corner of bank. Growth of rushes along outer shallow fosse except at NE corner. Interior pocked with quarry pits. On 1937 OS 6-inch map, stream shown flowing from NW corner to join Awbeg River c. 1.26km to N.

The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.

Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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