Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ballynoe (kerrycurrihy By.), County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynoe (kerrycurrihy By.)
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated (1933)
- Coordinates
- 51.83365, -8.51717
- SMR number
- CO086-019----
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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 tillage, at base of S-facing slope. Depicted on 1842, 1902 and 1933 OS 6-inch maps as rectangular field (max. c. 50m E-W; c. 60m N-S). Earthen bank (H 1.6m) survives to N and E incorporated into field fence system; drain (D c. 3m) follows line of external fosse on E side. According to O'Leary (1918, 115), 'on Mrs. Coleman's farm is a square lios, half an acre or so in area, with rampart 6 feet or 7 feet high'.
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
- Icehouseunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.