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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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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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

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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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