Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Barrees, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Barrees
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.70588, -9.91744
- SMR number
- CO102-030010-
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
A circular enclosure (14.9m E-W; 14.4m N-S) defined by a double line of upright contiguous stones (max. H 1.2m) E-SW and W-N; core (int. H 0.7m) now grass-covered, contains some stones. Entrance (Wth 1.2m) to SSE defined by two upright slabs. Depicted on OS 6-inch map (1901).
Radiocarbon dating of peat growth (GrN-28301; 800±30 BP) in the interior shows the enclosure to have been abandoned by c. AD 1200 (O'Brien 2004b, 61; 2006, 39).
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
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.