Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
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Derrycreeveen, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Derrycreeveen
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.63718, -9.89397
- SMR number
- CO128-027001-
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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 pasture, on the W side of a stream on Bear Island. A horseshoe-shaped mound (8.5m N-S; 8m E-W; H 0.9m) of heat-shattered stones and charcoal-enriched soil. The opening (Wth 2m) faces E towards a stream. The mound is largely covered by a dense growth of gorse. There is a possible burnt mound (CO128-027002-) c. 65m to the SW.
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
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.