Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
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Bunkilla, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bunkilla
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1903)
- Coordinates
- 51.97161, -8.68629
- SMR number
- CO061-077----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 15m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map; as hachured mound (diam. c. 9m) enclosed by fosse on 1903 OS 6-inch map. Levelled; surrounding field fences removed. According to Hartnett (1939, 180), central platform surrounded by water-logged fosse with outer earthen bank (H 3-4ft) encircling whole complex; entrance to W with field clearance stones forming causeway across fosse.
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
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.