Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ballyshurdane, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyshurdane
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1936)
- Coordinates
- 52.26548, -8.39671
- SMR number
- CO018-020----
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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 gentle NE-facing slope. Circular platform (22m N-S; 19m E-W; H 0.5m) enclosed by fosse (D 0.5m; Wth c. 10.5m) within larger oval area (c. 60m NW-SE; c. 50m NE-SW) defined by earthen grass-covered bank (int. H 0.3m; ext. H 1.2m); fosse and bank concentric NW->SE. Slight causeway across fosse to S. Waterlogging in fosse to SW. Break in bank to NE and S. Stone (H 0.5m; 0.3m x 0.95m) stands outside fosse to NE; aligned approx. E-W.
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.