Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Structure
Ballynacarriga (imokilly By., Youghal Par.), County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynacarriga (imokilly By., Youghal Par.)
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.96421, -7.88030
- SMR number
- CO067-087003-
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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
This structure was excavated within an enclosure (CO067-087----) at Ballynacarriga in 2001 during advance work on the N25 Youghal Bypass. This structure is evidenced by two slot-trenches. The slot-trench at the N was semicircular in plan (diam. 6.6m; Wth 0.28-0.4m; D 0.1-0.2m) and was best preserved along the N arc where it had vertical sides and a flat base. This trench became gradually shallower along its E and W arcs. The second smaller slot-trench (C 2.8m E-W) was of a similar width and depth and was traceable on a parallel arc c. 6m to the S. There was no direct physical relationship between the two trenches. Fourteen post-holes and a possible internal gully were associated with the slot-trenches. According to the excavator (Noonan 2003e, 29), the close proximity of this structure to two corn-drying kilns (CO067-087004-, CO067-087006-) suggests that it may have been a windbreak of some kind. (Noonan 2003e, 29-30; Noonan et al. 2004, 36-7)
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
- Kiln - corn-dryingunder 1 mi
- Kiln - corn-dryingunder 1 mi
- Kiln - corn-dryingunder 1 mi
- Structureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.