Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Mullaghmesha, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mullaghmesha
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.70613, -9.31119
- SMR number
- CO106-072----
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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
The remains of an oval hut site (3m N-S; 2m E-W) defined by a curving drystone wall (H 0.75m) which abuts an E-W stone wall (L 7.5m) along its S arc. There is an entrance (Wth 0.8m) at the SE. (pers. comm. J. Kiely)
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
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.