Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Brigown, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Brigown
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.25946, -8.25888
- SMR number
- CO019-165----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
The WNW arc of a possible circular enclosure, defined by a fosse, was identified following archaeological testing in advance of development on the outskirts of Mitchelstown (Carroll 2006b, 41). Subsequent excavation revealed a large curving fosse (L. c. 34m; D 0.5-1.5m; Wth 2.3m) with a possible palisade trench located immediately E of and in line with the fosse along its S half. A large quantity of metal slag and charcoal were recovered from the fill at the N end of the fosse. Several small pits and linear features, located both inside and outside this section of the fosse, also contained slag and charcoal. No datable finds were recovered from the fosse.
The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009).
Date of upload: 22 December 2009
Nearby in the register
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy/saint's stoneunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.