Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ballyhooly North, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyhooly North
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1935)
- Coordinates
- 52.17125, -8.40296
- SMR number
- CO026-100----
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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. Roughly circular, slightly raised area (103m E-W; 91m N-S) defined by earthen bank (int. H 0.35m; ext. H 1.1m), patched in parts by stone walling. Just inside bank NW->ESE is low scarped edge, facing down towards bank. Break in bank to NE, flanked by gate posts; smaller gap to ESE. Interior under pasture. Aerial photograph (CASAP, July 1989) shows circular enclosure as partially levelled. Levelled portion, NNE->SSW, visible in aerial photograph (CASAP, July 1995) as cropmark of bank and external fosse.
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.