Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - motte
Ballynoran, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynoran
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.31391, -8.70448
- SMR number
- CO007-156----
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In pasture, on elevated site. Oval flat-topped mound (diam. at base: 38m E-W; 48m N-S; top of mound c. 13m E-W; 18m N-S; H c. 1.5m). Side of mound less-noticeably steep on SW side. Mound surrounded by fosse (D 0.5m); traces of outer bank NW->SE. Fosse deepest and partially infilled NW->SE, where incorporated into field boundary system. Medieval parish church of Cooliney (14414) c. 1km to NNW.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). 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
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.