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Hut site

Downmacpatrick Or Old Head, County Cork, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Hut site, Downmacpatrick Or Old Head, County Cork, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Downmacpatrick Or Old Head
County
Cork
Country
Ireland
Coordinates
51.61614, -8.54143
SMR number
CO137-007003-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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)
  • 1868 · 4. Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (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

This feature was recorded by David Sweetman and Muiris de Buitléir of National Monuments Service, Office of Public Works, in 1983 (Hurley 2012). There is now no evident trace of it on the ground (ibid.).

Hurley, M. (2012) ‘Archaeological Assessment for the relocation of hole 13 and all associated site works at Old Head Golf Links, Downmacpatrick, Old head, Kinsale, Co. Cork.’, unpublished report submitted to Dept of Arts, Heritage and Gaeltacht.

Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 16 January 2012

This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 9/1978).

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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