Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Creggannacourty, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Creggannacourty
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated (1937)
- Coordinates
- 52.26016, -8.77127
- SMR number
- CO016-031----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In tillage, atop hill, c. 300m NW of Cregane House. Depicted as hachured oval enclosure (c. 45m N-S; c. 35m E-W) on 1842 OS 6-inch map; indicated as oval enclosure on 1905 and 1937 OS 6-inch maps; partially planted with trees on all three editions of OS 6-inch map. Oval area (38.2m N-S; 29.4m E-W) planted with deciduous trees. According to local information, bank which once enclosed site, levelled. No visible surface trace of bank or any enclosing element. May be tree ring. Ringfort (12370) in adjoining field c. 100m to NW.
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Kiln - limeunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.