Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Midden
Ballyvodock West, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyvodock West
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.88892, -8.22087
- SMR number
- CO076-014----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
On edge of S-facing limestone cliff, in estuary to N of Great Island and Brown Island. Not located. Schlichting (1973, 15-16) describes shell deposit 25 feet long and 12 inches thick at centre; heavily overgrown; sherd of 'coarse black pottery' found in rabbit burrow immediately below midden.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). 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
- Country houseunder 1 mi
- Middenunder 1 mi
- Middenunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.