Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Moated site
Coolmahane, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Coolmahane
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1842)
- Coordinates
- 52.21143, -8.85547
- SMR number
- CO023-038----
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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. 60m N-S; c. 60m E-W) on 1842 OS 6-inch map, with lime kiln in SE corner; outer edge of W side of enclosure truncated by roadway; spring well, immediately to W of roadway, at NW corner of site. In pasture, on N-facing slope. Levelled; evident as barely perceptible low rise enclosing rectangular area. Listed by Barry (1981, 82, no. 24).
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
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.