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Shambles

Coolfadda, County Cork, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Shambles, Coolfadda, County Cork, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Coolfadda
County
Cork
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Old Shambles (1939)
Coordinates
51.74764, -8.73941
SMR number
CO110-020----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1865 · Ireland, (South) Sheet. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Meat shambles built on E-facing slope adjacent to Bandon Fair Green. Sixteen-sided stone walled enclosure (diam. c. 45m; H c.6m) with corner buttresses built 1817; eastern bays have oeil-de-boeuf opes. Arched doorway in NW wall. Two-storey residential house fills bay to SW with inscribed stone (illegible) over central arched passage into interior, now blocked. Along internal S wall of enclosure are remains of lean-to stalls, on W side are modern dwellings/buildings. In centre, an 8-sided roofless slaughter house (diam. c. 20m; H 3.8m). The shambles is now in use as flats and retail units following renovations, c. 2000.

The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.

Updated by: Paul Walsh

Revised date of upload: 17 March 2015

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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