Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Field boundary
Commons West (bear By.), County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Commons West (bear By.)
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.67376, -9.97016
- SMR number
- CO114-090----
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
In rough hill pasture, on heather and gorse-covered cutaway bog, on a gentle W-facing slope to the N of Miskish Mountain. Turf-cutting has exposed a series of relict stone field boundaries which extend in a general NE-SW direction throughout a roughly rectangular area (c. 190m NE-SW; c. 50m NW-SE). The remains of the walls are defined by stones which protrude at irregular intervals from turf banks (Wth 0.7-1m; H 0.3m) left by turf-cutting.
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.