Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Low Island, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Low Island
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.51630, -9.12957
- SMR number
- CO151-054----
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
On rough grazing land on N side of Low Island. Roughly circular area (7.4m NE-SW; 7m NW-SE) eroded by sea on SE side where sharp fall to rocky shore; enclosed elsewhere (SSW->E) by low earthen bank with some stones (int. H 0.8m; ext. H 0.4m). Interior sunken and sloping down to SE. Low bank (H c. 0.2m) extends from W side of hut NW across island (L c. 25m).
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
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Chapelunder 1 mi
- Promontory fort - coastalunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.