Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ballynahown, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynahown
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.70680, -9.67296
- SMR number
- CO103-030002-
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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 pasture, on a S-facing slope with views of Trafrask Harbour and Bantry Bay. A roughly circular area (9.8m N-S; 8.6m E-W) is defined by upright slabs (T 0.2m; H 0.55m) largely obscured by a dense cover of gorse and spaced irregularly on the perimeter. The level interior is in rough pasture. There is a fulacht fia (CO103-030001-) c. 110m to the W.
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
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.