Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Moated site
Walshestown (orrery And Kilmore By.), County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Walshestown (orrery And Kilmore By.)
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1937)
- Coordinates
- 52.26944, -8.69299
- SMR number
- CO016-078----
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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 flat pasture. Rectangular, slightly raised area (45.8m N-S; c. 34m E-W) enclosed by scarp (H 2m) with external fosse; counterscarp bank (ext. H 0.55) on S side. Fosse shallow and overgrown with reeds; replaced by drain on E side with material from drain dumped along top of scarp on this side. Scarp on W side has slipped considerably or has been cut into; fosse at this point bulges outwards. Interior level and partially overgrown; in SW corner is large circular earthen mound (13.3m NE-SW; c. 13m NW-SE; H 1.5m).
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
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Country houseunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.