Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Shehy Beg, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Shehy Beg
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.77905, -9.23008
- SMR number
- CO093-080002-
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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 rough hill grazing on bog, with occasional outcropping rock, on a large terrace on the upper S-facing slopes of Shehy Beg. A D-shaped area (9m N-S), with the straight side at N (L 14m), is defined by the linear face of outcropping rock at N and elsewhere by the remains of a stone wall (T 0.4m; H 1m). The stone wall consists mainly of contiguous stone slabs protruding above the surface of the bog. Rushes obscure the interior. There is a hut site (CO093-080001-) c. 60m to the E.
A length of field wall (L c. 14m) emerges from the bog c.11m out from the western side of the enclosure. It consists of mostly flat stones set on edge contiguously (H. 0.8m). It forms a partial outer element to the enclosure.
The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009).
Date of upload/revision: 7 March 2022
Additional information supplied by Tony Miller
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.