Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Meadstown (fermoy By.), County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Meadstown (fermoy By.)
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated (1936)
- Coordinates
- 52.23834, -8.43118
- SMR number
- CO018-077----
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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 quadrilateral enclosure (c. 50m WNW-ESE; c. 40m NNE-SSW) on 1842 OS 6-inch map, with NW side defined by laneway shown as double broken line; indicated as subrectangular enclosure on 1905 and 1936 OS 6-inch maps. In tillage. According to local information, levelled c. 1979 during field boundary clearance. Field boundary respecting or incorporating SW side survives, this is heavily overgrown and curves slightly.
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
- Mass-rockunder 1 mi
- House - vernacular houseunder 1 mi
- Schoolunder 1 mi
- House - vernacular houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.