Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ballymacallen,cregg South, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballymacallen,cregg South
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1935)
- Coordinates
- 52.13594, -8.35456
- SMR number
- CO035-037----
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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 N-facing slope, straddling natural gully. Depicted as hachured oval enclosure (c. 80m E-W; c. 60m N-S) on 1842 OS 6-inch map; arc survives SE->SW in field boundary system on 1905 and 1935 OS 6-inch maps; hachured on 1935 OS 6-inch map. Levelled; oval area (82m E-W; 60m N-S) defined by low rise W->E, with barely perceptible trace of external fosse. Site bisected by N-S field boundary (townland boundary) and by N-flowing stream. According to local information, S arc of site consisted of a line of blackthorn bushes; removed during field fence clearance c. 1976.
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
- Cliff-edge fortunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.