Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Field boundary
Leitrim Beg, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Leitrim Beg
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.70306, -9.66632
- SMR number
- CO104-026----
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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 hill pasture, on bog, on a S-facing slope with a view over Trafrask Harbour and Bantry Bay. The remains of a relict stone field boundary (T 0.5m; H 0.45m) defined by stones which protrude intermittently above the surface of the bog and extend (L c. 35m) in a general N-S direction and then turn in an E direction for c. 40m. A dense cover of moor grass, gorse and heather obscures most of the stones. A plantation of coniferous trees is growing to the S, W and N of this relict field boundary. A fire break is to the E.
The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009).
Date of upload: 22 December 2009
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.