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Ecclesiastical enclosure

Nohaval Daly, County Cork, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ecclesiastical enclosure, Nohaval Daly, County Cork, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Nohaval Daly
County
Cork
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.09160, -9.18265
SMR number
CO038-002003-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1883 · Ireland 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In undulating pasture. Roughly oval enclosure (c. 80m NW-SE; c. 60m NE-SW) visible in aerial photograph (Dr D.D.C. Pochin Mould) as shadow site. Enclosing element evident in parts as low rise (max. H 0.95m). Locally known as 'cillín'. Ringfort (12810) at N end, known locally as burial ground and church site (14155,14524) (Bowman 1934, 666). Recorded by Bowman (ibid.) as levelled double-ramparted fort (diam. c. 65yd) on T. O'Brien's land, with site c. 3ft higher than surrounding field level and depression (c. 8yd by 6yd; D c. 2ft) 'on the S of site' (ibid.).

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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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