Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Glashaboy West, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glashaboy West
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated (1938)
- Coordinates
- 52.04716, -8.70300
- SMR number
- CO041-117001-
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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
Depicted as hachured, roughly square enclosure (c. 30m N-S; c. 28m E-W) on 1842 OS 6-inch map, with W side slightly convex; E, S and W sides indicated on 1904 and 1938 OS 6-inch maps. In ploughed field, on E-facing slope, commanding extensive view to NE and SE. No visible surface trace. According to local information, levelled c. 1980. Linear banks to E, S and W visible in aerial photograph (GSIAP, W2; July 1973). Two fulacht fiadh (10846,10847) in same field c. 15m to E. Most of surrounding field boundaries removed.
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
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.