Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Rossmackowen Commons, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rossmackowen Commons
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.68446, -9.80410
- SMR number
- CO116-032----
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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 rough mountain grazing, on a mantle of blanket bog, on a terrace on the steep W-facing slope of Hungry Hill. The remains of an oval hut site (2.4m N-S; 1.9m E-W) defined by a collapsed drystone wall (T c. 0.6m; H 0.65m). The hut site is cut (D 0.5m) into the upslope at the ESE and is built up (H 0.2m) externally on the downslope at the W to compensate for the hillslope. There is some rubble scattered on the downslope.
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.