Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Lock
Longueville, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Longueville
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated (1936)
- Coordinates
- 52.13142, -8.73496
- SMR number
- CO032-021003-
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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
This lock is referred to in the 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork - vol. 4 North Cork' (2000, 714) under the entry (no. 15257) for a canal (CO032-021001-). The lock is referred to in the entry as follows: Canal taken from River Blackwater at W end, by Pallas lock which no longer survives (Jackson 1987, 22). Second lock (CO032-021003-) at Longueville: now shortened at E end from length of 47m to 23.5m; retaining side walls (Wth 6.62m; H c. 4m) built of coursed ashlar limestone, with vertical niche for lock gate at E end. W end destroyed when turned into underpass for farm animals during road widening in 1985/6.
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
- Kiln - limeunder 1 mi
- Decoy pondunder 1 mi
- Canalunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.