Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Oldcastletown, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Oldcastletown
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1936)
- Coordinates
- 52.26547, -8.42840
- SMR number
- CO018-011----
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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
Depicted as hachured square enclosure (c. 30m N-S; c. 30m E-W) on 1842, 1905 and 1936 OS 6-inch maps. In pasture, on gentle S-facing slope. Levelled; no visible surface trace. According to local information, enclosure was square. Roughly square enclosure visible in aerial photograph (GSIAP, R640; May 1977) as soilmark of recently levelled bank.
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
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.