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Earthwork

Ballybeg East, County Cork, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Earthwork, Ballybeg East, County Cork, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Ballybeg East
County
Cork
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.22081, -8.66984
SMR number
CO017-059004-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1883 · Ireland 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In low-lying boggy pasture, between Awbeg River to S and Ballybeg abbey (14379) to N. Field, bordered by river to S and road to N, contains many low undulations. Immediately S of road, and 'roughly in line with the east wall of the abbey' (O Rahilly 1994, site 11), is trapezoidal enclosure (36m E-W; 40m N-S), enclosed by low earthen bank on E and W sides and by scarp to N. Low earthen bank (Wth c. 2m; H c. 0.5m) runs from NW corner of platform to stream bed to NW (L 38m). In same field, close to bank of river and N of platform, are three irregular mounds of earth and stone (average H 1.5m). Aerial photographs (Dr D.D.C. Pochin Mould) show further earthworks in this field as shadow sites. Platform likely to be part of monastic complex; mounds near river may be result of river drainage or could be associated with mill (15228) shown in approximately this position on Down Survey (1655-6) barony map.

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

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

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