Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
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
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.85734, -8.32012
- SMR number
- CO087-125----
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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 a housing estate, on a steep W-facing slope. Described in 1999 as a kidney-shaped mound (18m E-W; 15m N-S) of heat-shattered stones and charcoal-enriched soil in a ploughed field just E of a country house named 'The Hermitage' on the 1934 OS 6-inch map; yellow soil noted on the S side of the mound may have marked the location of the hearth (SMR file). There are no visible remains of this possible fulacht fia.
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
- Bee-bolesunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.