Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Derreen Lower, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Derreen Lower
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.69277, -9.76932
- SMR number
- CO116-042----
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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 pasture, on a S-facing slope surrounded by mountains near the waterfall at the head of Coomgira valley. A circular area (9.4m E-W; 9m N-S) is defined by traces of a low bank (Wth 1m; H 0.05-0.2m) with several sheep gaps and with some stones on top along its SW-N arc. The level interior, partially covered with rushes, is cut into the bank at N (D 0.5m) and raised (H 0.6m) at S to compensate for the hillslope. There are traces of a stone facing along the S arc. There is an enclosure (CO116-035001-) c. 40m to the SW and a fulacht fia (CO116-036----) c. 50m to the W.
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
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.