Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Lackabane (muskerry West By.), County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lackabane (muskerry West By.)
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1936)
- Coordinates
- 52.06043, -9.04394
- SMR number
- CO039-070----
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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
Shown on 1842 OS 6-inch map as one of three circular plantations of trees (9159; 8743) in 'Deer Park' of Tullig House; on 1936 OS 6-inch map as hachured circularenclosure (diam. c. 30m). In pasture, on steep SW-facing slope. Circular area (diam. 28m) enclosed by low scarp (max. H 1.2m) SSE->NNE, low bank to NE; low outer eroded bank (max. H 0.8m) and shallow intervening fosse (Wth3.5m) SSE->ENE. Interior slopes very steeply downhill from NE to SW. Entire site planted with coniferous trees. Possibly fort recorded by Broker (1937,49) on Michael Riordan's land as 'Beech fort, 1/4 acre, double fence, partly levelled'. Surviving banks are insubstantial; no attempt has been made to level up interior. These factors together with position of site in relation to Tullig House may suggest that this is a tree ring.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). 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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.