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Cliff-edge fort

Carragraigue, County Cork, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Cliff-edge fort, Carragraigue, 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
Carragraigue
County
Cork
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1937)
Coordinates
52.07690, -8.94319
SMR number
CO040-048----

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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)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (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 pasture, atop cliff edge on E bank of Rathcool River. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure on 1842 OS 6-inch map; as roughly circular bivallate enclosure defined on W side by straight cliff face on 1904 and 1937 OS 6-inch maps. Roughly oval area (40.5m N-S; 32.5m E-W) defined by two earthen banks (inner bank: int. H 1.1m; ext. H 2.85m; outer bank: H 0.5m) to N, E and S, with intervening fosse (D 2.05m) and shallow external fosse (D 0.5m); straight cliff edge to W. Causewayed entrance (Wth 3.1m) to ESE; causewayed break (Wth 1.5m) in bank to SSW. Interior grass-covered; slopes down to W.

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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