Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Tooreen (duhallow By.), County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tooreen (duhallow By.)
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1937)
- Coordinates
- 52.09956, -8.89727
- SMR number
- CO040-015----
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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 forestry, on NE-facing slope of hill. Depicted as hachured oval enclosure (c. 28m x c. 18m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map, with rectangular building along SE side; as hachured circular enclosure on 1904 OS 6-inch map, with S side (upslope) defined by bank and N side (downslope) defined by scarp; as hachured raised area (diam. c. 22m) on 1937 OS 6-inch map. Levelled; area planted with trees and no visible surface trace of site noted. Recorded by Bowman (1934, 238) as levelled single-ramparted fort (diam. c. 19yd) at foot of mountain on J. Cronin's land.
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 - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Burnt spreadunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.