Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fish palace
Scilly, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Scilly
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.70456, -8.51898
- SMR number
- CO112-061----
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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
Went (1946, 140) records site of pilchard press at Scilly in Kinsale. No visible surface trace. 1842 OS 6-inch map shows two parallel rectangular structures (long axes NE-SW) in area known locally as "the palace"; ruined residential structure may be remains of these. Immediately to SW, ruined rectangular 2-storey, 11-bay structure (long axis N-S) to SW, date plaque inscribed "1840", is known locally as "fish factory".
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). 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
- House - medievalunder 1 mi
- Decorated stoneunder 1 mi
- Almshouseunder 1 mi
- Armorial plaqueunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.