Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Midden
Kilcoe, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilcoe
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.54973, -9.39521
- SMR number
- CO140-070----
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 1841 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Located on Holly Island, a very small wooded and uninhabited island, at the mouth of the estuary of Roaringwater River. A layer (L 2m; T 0.1-0.15m) consisting mainly of oyster shells is exposed beneath the soil cover (T c. 0.4m) just above high water mark on the W side of the island.
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
- Kiln - limeunder 1 mi
- Cupmarked stoneunder 1 mi
- Cupmarked stoneunder 1 mi
- Metalworking siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.