Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Shambles
Coolfadda, County Cork, Ireland
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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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
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
- Barracksunder 1 mi
- Cross - Market crossunder 1 mi
- Market-houseunder 1 mi
- House - 17th centuryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.