Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Moated site
Ballyarthur (condons And Clongibbon By., Marshalstown Par.), County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyarthur (condons And Clongibbon By., Marshalstown Par.)
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1936)
- Coordinates
- 52.29473, -8.29865
- SMR number
- CO010-021----
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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 break in S-facing slope of Ballyarthur Hill. Square area (48m N-S; 48m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 1.3m; ext. H 1m) with external flat-bottomed fosse (D 1m). Bank broad based and overgrown; break in bank at SE corner; causewayed entrance approximately midway along E bank. Fosse dry; stream, which may have flooded fosse, on opposite side of field boundary a short distance to W; field fence extending to NE from NW corner of site may represent line of water course which conducted water from larger stream c. 80m to E of site. Interior level and grass-covered. Listed by Barry (1981, 82, no. 3).
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
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.