Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Mountbridget, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mountbridget
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Lissanourd (1937)
- Coordinates
- 52.24821, -8.72999
- SMR number
- CO016-122----
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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 pasture, on SE-facing slope; land falls away steeply to NE immediately outside site. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 80m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map; as roughly oval bivallate enclosure (c. 80m ENE-WSW; c. 60m NNW-SSE) on 1905 and 1937 OS 6-inch maps, with external fosse. According to local information, levelled between 1954 and 1974. Field undulating; no visible surface trace of site. St Bridget's Well (14024) lies c. 170m to ENE.
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
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.