Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Grange East (orrery And Kilmore By.), County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Grange East (orrery And Kilmore By.)
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1842)
- Coordinates
- 52.21449, -8.69023
- SMR number
- CO024-058----
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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 pasture, on break in steep N-facing slope. Depicted on 1842 OS 6-inch map as hachured circular enclosure. Circular area (diam. c. 16m) defined by low earth and stone bank (H 0.45m) NE->SSE; overgrown scarp (H c. 1.8m) elsewhere. Interior bisected by N-facing scarp on E-W axis; N half of interior level; S half of interior slopes down to N. Rock outcropping in NW quadrant.
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.