Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Structure
Reen (Carbery West (E.D) By.), County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Reen (Carbery West (E.D) By.)
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Ovens (1902)
- Coordinates
- 51.51679, -9.17395
- SMR number
- CO151-019002-
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1841 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1841 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1866 · 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)
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The National Monuments Service's description
In pasture, on SW-facing slope, 40m NE of coastal promontory fort (CO151-019001-). Low rectangular mound (5.3m E-W; 3m N-S), stone-edged at N, E and S; to W, sunken cruciform passage (L 3.1m; Wth 2.8m; D 0.78m), stone-faced. Formerly covered by earthen mound, removed by T. Boyle Somerville in 1930s. Depicted as small open rectangular structure, named 'Spanish Ovens' on OS 6-inch map (1842), and as two small square blocks, indicating a structure, on OS 6-inch map (1902). Date or function not evident from remains. According to Coleman (1922, 68), ovens used by Spanish c. 1600. Westropp (1914-16, 100-1) was of the opinion that the ovens was 'a small hut with two oblong rooms' used by the Spanish, but part of a pre-existing settlement.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
Nearby in the register
- Promontory fort - coastalunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.