Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Kilcummer Lower, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilcummer Lower
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.15230, -8.44283
- SMR number
- CO034-029----
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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 tillage, on ridge overlooking River Blackwater to S. Cropmark of fosse of large circular enclosure (diam. c. 90m) visible in aerial photograph (CASAP, July 1989). NW edge of enclosure truncated by railway line (visible also as cropmark in aerial photograph). No visible surface trace of enclosure though slight hollow noted in area. Mesolithic find scatter (9815) c. 60m to SW in same field.
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
- Prehistoric site - lithic scatterunder 1 mi
- Railway bridgeunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.