Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Midden
Carrigrenan, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrigrenan
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.88916, -8.34092
- SMR number
- CO075-024001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
On shoreline at Little Island and S of tower (CO075-02402-). Spread of shells, mostly oyster, extends for 66m along shore. Spread is 0.10m deep and 2m wide but possible extends landwards under grass cover.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). 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
- Designed landscape - belvedereunder 1 mi
- Middenunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Martello towerunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.