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County Cork: Corkbeg Fort. 'The fort of Corkebegge not fynesshede': plan also shows...
Catalogue reference: MPF 1/85
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This record is about the County Cork: Corkbeg Fort. 'The fort of Corkebegge not fynesshede': plan also shows... dating from 1571 in the series Public Record Office: Maps and plans extracted to flat storage from various series.... It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- MPF 1/85
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1571
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Description (What the record is about)
- County Cork: Corkbeg Fort. 'The fort of Corkebegge not fynesshede': plan also shows a bulwark for the haven mouth. Scale: 1 inch to 50 feet. Drawn by Robert Lythe. 1 item extracted from SP 64/1 (item 18). To view papers accompanying this map, visit https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your-research/research-guides/irish-maps-c1558-c1610
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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- Public Record(s)
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- 47.2 cm x 30.7 cm
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- Open Document, Open Description
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- Maps and Plans in the Public Record Office: I. British Isles, c.1410-1860, (London, 1967), entry 3832. Described in R Dunlop, '16th-century maps of Ireland', English Historical Review, vol xx, 1905, p 320.
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3982029/
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