Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Metalworking site
Adrigole, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Adrigole
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Metal Foundry (in Ruins) (1842)
- Coordinates
- 51.69393, -9.72514
- SMR number
- CO116-005001-
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
In grounds of Adrigole Ho. at head of Adrigole Harbour. Old furnace (CO116-005002-) shown as part of complex on O.S. 1st ed. map. A single featureless structure survives (6.8m E-W; 4.3m N-S); area strewn with slag and vitrified stone. McCracken (1957, 127) refers to a "large works" here in 17th/18th century.
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
- Metalworking siteunder 1 mi
- Country houseunder 1 mi
- Stone circle - five-stoneunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.