Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Moated site
Ballycoskery, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballycoskery
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1937)
- Coordinates
- 52.30736, -8.66560
- SMR number
- CO008-035----
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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 undulating pasture. Rectangular area (39.1m N-S; 28.3m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.75m; ext. H 0.5m) to N, E and S, with external fosse (D 1.3m); truncated to W by deep wide ditch associated with railway line. Interior partially overgrown. Depicted as hachured rectangular enclosure (c. 55m E-W; c. 45m N-S) on 1842 OS 6-inch map, before building of railway line.
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
- House - vernacular houseunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 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.