Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Rahan, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rahan
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1935)
- Coordinates
- 52.13707, -8.53293
- SMR number
- CO034-002----
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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 break in SE-facing slope, above sharp fall of ground down to stream. Depicted as hachured roughly oval enclosure (c. 40m NNE-SSW; c. 25m ESE-WNW) on 1842 OS 6-inch map, with field boundary replacing or truncating site to NW and NNE; hachured subrectangular enclosure on 1905 and 1935 OS 6-inch maps, with field boundary to NNE. Levelled; field boundary remains to NNE; undulations visible in area of site.
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
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.