Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Midden
Ashgrove (barrymore By.),currabally, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ashgrove (barrymore By.),currabally
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.87699, -8.24291
- SMR number
- CO076-033----
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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 townland boundary, between Currabally (part of) and Ashgrove, S of shoreline on N side of Great Island. No visible surface trace. According to Schlichting (1973, 17) 'consists only of a few shells among roots of a large tree atop an old field fence'. One shell midden (CO076-032---) further W along coast road and second (CO076-037---) further E.
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
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Middenunder 1 mi
- Middenunder 1 mi
- Middenunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.