Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Walshestown (muskerry East By.), County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Walshestown (muskerry East By.)
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1842)
- Coordinates
- 51.89418, -8.69018
- SMR number
- CO072-051----
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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, on S-facing slope overlooking stream valley. Depicted as hachured D-shaped enclosure (c. 35m E-W; c. 30m N-S) on 1842 OS 6-inch map; straight side abutting W side of N-S field boundary. Levelled; low undulations in area of site. According to Hartnett (1939, 136), locally known as site of fort.
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.