Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Moated site
Ballyknockane (barretts By.), County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyknockane (barretts By.)
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1842)
- Coordinates
- 52.07075, -8.61835
- SMR number
- CO042-048----
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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 E-facing slope. Depicted as hachured bivallate rectangular enclosure (max. c. 40m N-S; c. 30m E-W) on 1842 OS 6-inch map. Levelled; no visible surface trace. Large stone (L 1.8m; 0.45m x 0.3m) in area of site. Surrounding field fences removed. Two wells are indicated on 1935 OS 6-inch map, immediately W of site.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). 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
- Settlement deserted - medievalunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.