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Settlement deserted - medieval

Kilmaclenine, County Cork, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Settlement deserted - medieval, Kilmaclenine, County Cork, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Kilmaclenine
County
Cork
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.20424, -8.72390
SMR number
CO024-052001-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1883 · Ireland 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In pasture, on level plateau overlooking low-lying land to E. Castle (14332) and church (14434) of Kilmaclenine immediately to N and E respectively. No visible surface trace of settlement, but aerial photograph (CASAP) shows series of linear N-S cropmarks in field to W of church which may represent burgage plot boundaries; another photograph (O'Brien 1993, opp. 154) shows similar cropmarks in field to E of castle, S of fortified house (14376). Disused well c. 100m to SE of church said to have been formerly stone-lined with ten steps leading down to it (Grove White 1905-25, vol. 3, 317); survives today as circular depression (diam. 4m; D 1.2m). A N-S road, which 'evidently led towards the old church' traceable for a distance of 'about 150 yards' in field 'about 230 yards' S of church (ibid., 316); 'roadway was about 8 to 10 feet wide; the stones are most carefully laid'. Borough of Kilmaclenine founded by Bishop of Cloyne c. 1238 (Otway-Ruthven 1980, 117); inhabited in mid-14th century by some 27 burgesses, most of them English (ibid.). List of c. 1364-5 includes names of burgesses and the rent and services by which they held their property (MacCotter and Nicholls 1996, 45-49).

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.

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