Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Field boundary
Gowlane, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gowlane
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.69271, -9.88665
- SMR number
- CO115-079----
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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 bog, on a W-facing slope. A network of relict stone field boundaries (max. T 0.6m; max. H 0.55m) protrudes intermittently above the surface of the bog in a roughly rectangular area (c. 380m ENE-WSW; c. 150m NNW-SSE). Turf-cutting shows that the bog is 0.2-1m deep. Traces of walls were also noted in the cutaway bog, where the base stones are set on the underlying mineral soil. This suggests that most of the walls in this area are pre-bog field boundaries. At the WSW end of the network, walls protrude from the bog and radiate out from a rath (CO115-006----) and appear to be associated with it. There is a hut site (CO115-078----) on the opposite bank of the river, c. 60m to the NW.
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.