Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Garraunteefineen, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Garraunteefineen
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1937)
- Coordinates
- 52.17859, -8.88327
- SMR number
- CO023-135----
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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 bogland. Depicted on 1842 OS 6-inch map as hachured oval enclosure (c. 35m x c. 25m) to N of pond or waterlogged area; on 1905 and 1937 OS 6-inch maps as hachured oval raised area on N side of stream and pond. Levelled; slight rise evident, oval in shape. Recorded by Bowman (1934, 47) as double-ramparted fort in P. Howard's; interior 1.2m higher than outside field level, oval shaped (41m x 32m); almost all of outer rampart levelled.
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Country houseunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.