Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Meelaherragh, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Meelaherragh
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.19281, -8.92234
- SMR number
- CO023-313001-
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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 elevated pasture fields, which slope down gently to E and S. According to local information, one of four (13626, 13627, 13628) small circular enclosures (diam. c. 30ft) roughly in a line; all four are bisected off-centre to S by E-W field boundary. Low earthen bank, which once enclosed interior, levelled as a result of ploughing; visible in dry conditions as cropmark on both sides of fence. Area planted with trees; no visible surface trace of site.
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.