Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Promontory fort - coastal
Lios Ó Móine, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lios Ó Móine
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1842)
- Coordinates
- 51.44673, -9.49360
- SMR number
- CO153-005----
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
2 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1769 map "Nieuwe kaart van Ierland / I. Condet sculp." (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1769 · Nieuwe kaart van Ierland / I. Condet sculp. (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
- 1841 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Trapezoidal area (17.5m N-S; 27.5m E-W) projecting N from Cape Clear. Neck of promontory cut off by two banks, 2.6m apart. Outer bank (H 1.5m) may be modern; second bank (H 0.75m; Wth 4.1m) with central gap, probably ancient. Rectangular depression in interior (4.8m N-S; 3.5m E-W; D 1m) regarded by Westropp (1915, 255) as hut site but known locally as flax-retting pond.
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Promontory fort - coastalunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.