Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Castle Island (carbery West (e.d.) By.), County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Castle Island (carbery West (e.d.) By.)
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.50139, -9.30118
- SMR number
- CO150-079003-
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
In flat rough pasture, in the SW end of Castle Island in Lough Hyne. A roughly U-shaped area (L 17m NE-SW; Wth 15m NW-SE) is enclosed by a low grass-covered earthen bank (Wth 2.4m; int. and ext. H up to 0.3m) at NW, NE and SE. A prostrate stone, which may be a glacial erratic, lies on the ground c. 30m to the SE. There is a megalithic structure (CO150-079002-) c. 20m to the N and a cupmarked stone (CO150-079001-) c. 30m to the NE.
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
- Cupmarked stoneunder 1 mi
- Metalworking siteunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.