Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ballymacpierce, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballymacpierce
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Shanbally Fort (Site of) (1937)
- Coordinates
- 52.20021, -8.79452
- SMR number
- CO024-011003-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 tillage, atop ridge. Depicted as hachured roughly triangular enclosure (max. L 130m N-S; max. Wth at S end: 80m E-W) on 1842 OS 6-inch map; marked 'site of' on 1905 and 1937 OS 6-inch maps. Triangular area defined on W and E sides by shallow fosse; no visible surface trace of enclosing element on S side. Large natural-looking circular depression at centre of interior; depression overgrown, with tree trunks dumped against its perimeter. Earthwork (13826) and standing stone (9904) in adjoining field to 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
Attached image uploaded courtesy of Jean-Charles Caillere
Nearby in the register
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.