Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial ground
Dromin (muskerry East By.), County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dromin (muskerry East By.)
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated (1842)
- Coordinates
- 51.92966, -8.63224
- SMR number
- CO062-110----
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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, c. 100m to NE of moated site (9387). Depicted on 1842 OS 6-inch map as roughly circular area (c. 60m NW-SE) defined by broken line. Slight rise visible in area of site. According to Hartnett (1939, 279), field to E locally known as 'Pairc na Croiche (the field of the gallows)...and from time to time human bones are unearthed here during tillage operations'.
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
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.