Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ballintlea South, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballintlea South
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1935)
- Coordinates
- 52.27836, -8.50445
- SMR number
- CO009-001----
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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 forestry, atop hill, where three townlands (Ballintlea South, Craig Upper and Ballyguyroe North) and three parish boundaries (Doneraile, Templeroan and Farahy) meet. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 20m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map; as hachured circular mound or platform (diam. c. 40m; diam. of top c. 20m) on 1905 and 1935 OS 6-inch maps. Inaccessible due to forestry and gorse growth.
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
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Kiln - limeunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Standing stone1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.