Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Slievemore (sherkin Island), County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Slievemore (sherkin Island)
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.46185, -9.43573
- SMR number
- CO153-037----
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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 rough pasture, covered with a scatter of water-rolled stones, at the head of a NE-SW inlet on the SW side of Sherkin Island. There is a reed-covered marshy area to the NW. A circular slightly raised area (diam. 7.5m) defined by an enclosing element (T 0.5m; H 0.15m) formed by intermittently placed large stones, which protrude from the ground. Loose stones from the seashore are scattered within and around the possible enclosure.
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.