Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Prehistoric site - lithic scatter
Ballintra West, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballintra West
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.79522, -8.19363
- SMR number
- CO100-042----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
On E side of Gyleen village, on cliff overlooking sea to S. Identified during field study (1983-5). 'Flint artefacts were scattered throughout much of the field with two main concentrations... one of these produced...uni-plane cores... larger flakes and blades resembleing later Mesolithic material... the second concentration produced uniformly smaller flakes, blades and cores... not diagnostic of any particular lithic industry' (Johnson 1987, 14); excavation in 1986 produced 'no features or any evidence for an undisturbed 'occupation' level' (ibid.).
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
- Settlement clusterunder 1 mi
- House - vernacular houseunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.