Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Clifford, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clifford
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.14971, -8.48660
- SMR number
- CO034-014----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Indicated as irregular area (max. dims. 80m N-S; 60m E-W) planted with trees on 1842 and 1905 OS 6-inch maps; as irregular area of scrub on 1935 OS 6-inch map. According to local information, area of approximately half an acre of bushes, known as a 'fort' although 'not circular', site cleared by landowner c. 1987. Access to site denied.
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
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.