Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Designed landscape feature
Mountrivers, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mountrivers
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated (1938)
- Coordinates
- 51.97113, -8.83041
- SMR number
- CO060-063----
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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. D-shaped area, defined on SE side by field fence and on NW side by roughly semicircular arc of low bank (H c. 0.8m); enclosed area undulating, rising to crown of low knoll along field fence; two pine trees stand on SW side. Located on W edge of Mount Rivers demesne and clearly visible from house (9674); probably an estate feature.
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
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.