Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Knockroe West, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockroe West
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.63583, -10.00921
- SMR number
- CO114-032----
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
On level platform cut into SSW-facing slope of Slieve Miskish Mountains. Foundation trench (D 0.25m; Wth 0.3m) rectangular house (12m E-W; 3.8m N-S). Three upright stone slabs set in a line at E end N side; a further two slabs set at right angles form SE corner (average H 0.5m). Break in trench at centre of S side is possible entrance. Small rectangular area(3.2m N-S; 3.1m E-W), enclosed by low earthen bank, lies short distance to SW.
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
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Anomalous stone groupunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.