Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Cloongeel, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloongeel
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.18929, -8.98175
- SMR number
- CO022-170----
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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 Liscongill Wood, between N bank of River Dalua and S bank of old river channel. Roughly triangular platform (c. 50 NNW-SSE; c. 39m NW-SE; c. 21m NE-SW) composed of river mud. Interior slopes down to NE and pocked with animal burrows; c. 12m NW of S corner and c. 2.5m in from SW side, is roughly rectangular area (5.3m by 3.8m) defined on three sides by low earthen bank (int. H 0.3m) with shallow external depression (D 0.25m). According to local tradition, site of 'fort'.
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
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.