Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial ground
Mishells, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mishells
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1842)
- Coordinates
- 51.77077, -8.74498
- SMR number
- CO096-071----
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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 SE-facing slope. Pentagonal enclosure (c. 25m N-S; 27.5m E-W) defined by low earthen bank (max. H 0.6m). Low oval mound (6m N-S; 7m E-W) in NE quadrant. Field locally known as 'Paircin na Cille' (Ó Ríordáin 1932, 103). 'Mishells, under the name Midisel, is mentioned as a parish in a taxation list in 1199' (O'Donoghue 1986, 139).
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). 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
- Mass-rockunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.