What is recorded here
In pasture, atop E-W ridge known as Compass Hill, overlooking Kinsale to NE. Low, roughly circular mound (15m N-S; 16m E-W; H 0.5m); very faint depression on NE side (wth c. 15m; running c. 40m to field fence). Marked as 'the mound upon the Hill' on 1601 map (O'Neil 1940, facing 111); used as observation post and firing platform by Spanish during siege of Kinsale in 1601. O'Neil (ibid.) suggests this 'appears to be a round barrow' but current visible form too eroded to identify original form.
In pasture, atop E-W ridge known as Compass Hill, overlooking Kinsale to NE. Low, roughly circular mound (15m N-S; 16m E-W; H 0.5m); very faint depression on NE side (wth c. 15m; running c. 40m to field fence). Marked as 'the mound upon the Hill' on 1601 map (O'Neil 1940, facing 111); used as observation post and firing platform by Spanish during siege of Kinsale in 1601. O'Neil (ibid.) suggests this 'appears to…
From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CO112-089
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- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- David Dixon, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Mike Searle, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- The Speckled Bird, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- ME, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
- Einaz80, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Unknown author Unknown author, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
- Mike Searle, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Andy Beecroft, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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