Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mound
Kilcatherine, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilcatherine
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.71766, -9.99890
- SMR number
- CO101-002----
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 rough grazing, on S-facing slope overlooking Coulagh Bay. Identified by O'Brien (1970, 20) as indeterminate site. Trench, U-shaped in plan, excavated on hillside with upcast forming roughly rectangular mound (H 0.8m); appearance of modern man-made feature.
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
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Church1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.