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Ecclesiastical enclosure

Killarush, County Cork, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ecclesiastical enclosure, Killarush, 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
Killarush
County
Cork
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1938)
Coordinates
52.15426, -8.86791
SMR number
CO031-018001-

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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 S-facing slope. D-shaped enclosure (70m NNE-SSW; projecting c. 100m to E) defined by linear field boundary (NNE-SSW) to W and to N, curved earthen bank (int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1m) NE->SW, open elsewhere; external fosse (D 1m) E->SW. Break in bank to SE (Wth 3.2m). Inner face of bank survives as gentle slope from interior to top of bank. Interior level. Recorded by Bowman (1934, 210) as double-ramparted D-shaped fort on P. J. O'Callaghan's land; 'about two-thirds of the outer, and practically all the inner ramparts are levelled...intervening fosse is c. 14 feet wide'. Lime kiln shown inside bank to SE, on 1842 OS 6-inch map, described as 'disused...on south side of inner rampart' (ibid.). No visible surface trace of lime kiln. According to Bowman (ibid.) church site and burial ground (14121) in interior.

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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