Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - road/trackway
Commons West (Bear By.), County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Commons West (Bear By.)
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.65914, -9.97134
- SMR number
- CO114-084012-
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1841 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
In rough hill pasture, on the lower W and NW-facing stony slopes of Miskish Mountain. The remains of an old trackway (L. c. 1km; Wth 1-2m) run along the hillside in a general NW-N direction below the remains of a network of relict field boundaries (CO114-084011-) and above the enclosed fields which are still in use. A low intermittent bank (Wth 0.4-0.9m; H 0.1-0.8m) of earth and stone runs along the downslope side of the track. The track is indistinct in places and, according to local information, it continued at this elevation along the N-NE slopes of Miskish Mountain.
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.