Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Maltings
Ballynacorra West, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynacorra West
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Malthouse (1933)
- Coordinates
- 51.89821, -8.16993
- SMR number
- CO076-080----
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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
A large complex at mouth of inlet on E shore of Ballynacorra Estuary looking N to second maltings (CO076-074---). Indicated as Store on 1842 OS 6-inch map and Malthouse on 1933 OS 6-inch map. John Halloran listed as proprietor by Griffiths Valuation 1852, William Bennett listed as proprietor in Henry and Coughlans 'Directory' 1867 (pers. comm. C. Rynne). Drying house of 18 bays, 4-storey, gable-ended and built into slope on S side. Gabled addition at W end of S side may have been the 'steep house'; 4-storey addition at E end of S side known locally as 'side store' (ibid.). Kiln attached at E end with furnace houses. Interiors gutted (ibid). Malting complex (CO076-075---) in village to 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
- Maltingsunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Country houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.