Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ring-barrow
Mountrivers, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mountrivers
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1938)
- Coordinates
- 51.97287, -8.83218
- SMR number
- CO060-062001-
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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 pasture. Semicircular, slightly raised platform (diam. 10m N-S) defined by fosse (D 1m; Wth 3m) S->N with external bank (H 1m). Break in bank to WNW. Site overgrown with furze bushes. Laneway depicted on 1842 OS 6-inch map cut through E half of barrow. No visible surface trace of laneway or E half of site survives. Second ring-barrow (7878) c. 25m to ESE; two possible ring-barrows (7889, 7888) c. 10m to ESE and c. 25m to NE respectively.
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
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.