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Enclosure

Ballynafauna, County Cork, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Ballynafauna, County Cork, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Ballynafauna
County
Cork
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.12457, -8.22331
SMR number
CO036-051----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In pasture, atop hill. Roughly D-shaped area (straight side 64m E-W; projecting 80m to S) enclosed by earth and stone bank (H 0.5m). Interior broken by rock out crop. At S, inside bank of enclosure, roughly linear stone-built bank (H 0.2m; L c. 24m) cuts off narrow strip of interior from remainder. Adjoining N side of enclosure, is roughly semicircular platform (straight side 64m E-W; projecting c. 25m to N) defined by scarp (max. H 1.8m). Recorded by Windele (1898, 57) as 'an irregular fort, with a ruinous vallum and no fosse...the name "the fort of the assembly" may perhaps indicate that it was only a place of meeting a folk mote and not a fortified residence'. According to local tradition, 'a boy, some time since, looking after cows, found a hollow sound beneath his feet, which would show the presence of a crypt' (ibid.).

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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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