Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Creggane (duhallow By.),gortavoher, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Creggane (duhallow By.),gortavoher
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1842)
- Coordinates
- 52.11112, -8.80388
- SMR number
- CO032-060----
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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 gentle N-facing slope. Depicted as hachured oval enclosure (c. 60m N-S; c. 50m E-W) on 1842 OS 6-inch map, bisected WNW-ESE by townland boundary; lime kiln at outer face of WSW bank. Levelled; oval area (c. 62m N-S; c. 42m E-W) defined by slight scarp with shallow external fosse (D 0.2m) ESE->SW, on S side of townland boundary; natural scarp follows line of enclosure on N side of boundary fence. Break (Wth 9m) in scarp to ESE, on S side of field fence. Lime kiln survives to WSW, heavily overgrown. North half of interior partially overgrown with briars; in S half shallow linear fosse (D 0.1m; Wth 0.8m) runs from E to W c. 12m inside S scarp and curves at E end to run parallel to scarp. Possible souterrain (13386) 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
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Kiln - limeunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.