Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ballynamuddagh (fermoy By.), County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynamuddagh (fermoy By.)
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1842)
- Coordinates
- 52.12347, -8.36523
- SMR number
- CO035-036----
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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
Depicted as roughly rectangular enclosure on 1842 OS 6-inch map, with N and W sides incorporated into field boundary system. In pasture, on plateau sloping gently down to S. Subrectangular area (c. 90m N-S; c. 70m E-W) defined to N by straight field boundary, to E by fosse (D 0.52m; Wth 7m), to S by scarp (H 1.24m), to W by slightly curved field boundary. Field boundary on N and W sides may incorporate original bank as indicated on 1842 OS 6-inch map. Roadside field boundary skirts fosse on E side. Interior raised above level of surrounding fields to E, S and W; slight ridge (L c. 48m) extends NE from W bank, across N half of interior. Site known locally as a "lios".
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
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.