Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cliff-edge fort
Marybrook, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Marybrook
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.19400, -8.82577
- SMR number
- CO023-307----
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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 tillage, on edge of steep scarp which slopes down to S. Cropmark of fosse (SW->ESE) visible on N side of field fence in aerial photograph (CASAP, July 1989). No visible surface trace; field fence levelled. Possibly one of the levelled forts recorded by Bowman (1934, 410-111) in a field called 'pairc a daingin - fort field' on Mr Cronin's land.
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
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.