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Enclosure

Ballynacarriga (Imokilly By., Youghal Par.), County Cork, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Ballynacarriga (Imokilly By., Youghal Par.), 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
Ballynacarriga (Imokilly By., Youghal Par.)
County
Cork
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
51.96387, -7.88036
SMR number
CO067-086----

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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)
  • 1865 · Ireland, (South) Sheet. (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)

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The National Monuments Service's description

On the N side of a stream valley where the valley floor begins to rise. A rectangular enclosure (c. 40m E-W; 35m N-S) with rounded corners and defined by a fosse, was partially excavated in advance of the construction of the N25 Youghal Bypass in 2001. The fosse is U-shaped (Wth c. 3m; D 1.75) on the S side where the enclosure sits on the valley floor and is V-shaped (Wth c. 2.5m; D 3m) where the ground rises to the N. It widens to a maximum of 5m on the W side. Evidence from the fill of the fosse suggests that it silted up over a long period of time initially with the upper layers possibly deliberately backfilled. Two structures, one circular (CO067-086001-) and the other rectangular (CO067-086002-) were excavated in the SW part of the interior. Two souterrains (CO067-086003-, CO067-086004-) were located in the interior, one in the W half and the other in the E. Two corn-drying kilns (CO067-086005-, CO067-086006-) and a small box furnace (CO067-086007-) were also excavated within the enclosure. A radiocarbon date from the enclosing fosse produced a 'cal. AD 420-670 (cal. BP 1530-1280)' date suggesting an Early Christian period date for the enclosure (Noonan 2003e, 30). Sometime in the 7th century the enclosure was extended by the construction of a second enclosure (CO067-087----) immediately to the N. (Noonan 2003e, 29-30; Noonan et al. 2004).

The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009).

Date of upload: 22 December 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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