Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Loumanagh North, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Loumanagh North
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated (1937)
- Coordinates
- 52.15005, -9.09479
- SMR number
- CO030-002----
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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 W-facing slope. Depicted as circular area (diam. c. 25m) defined by broken line on 1937 OS 6-inch map, in corner of field. Corner of field (19m E-W; 17.6m N-S) now enclosed by low linear earthen banks (int. H 0.55m; ext. H 0.58m) to S and W, with external fosse (D 0.47m). Probably fort recorded by Bowman (1934, 518) as levelled on M. Murphy's land, the site of which 'has been ploughed many times'.
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.