Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Ballard Commons, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballard Commons
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.68381, -9.85442
- SMR number
- CO115-103009-
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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 the SE-facing slopes of Maulin overlooking the valley of the Owgarriff River. The remains of a circular hut site (2.8m E-W; 2.7m N-S) defined by upright slabs (T 0.3m; H 0.5m) W-NE and by the tops of stones which protrude intermittently from the bog NE-W. A gap at SW may indicate the entrance location. The level interior, which is obscured by rushes, is cut (D 0.1m) into the upslope at the NW to compensate for the hillslope. There is a hut site (CO115-103008-) 9m to the SE and another hut site (CO115-103010-) c. 50m to the N.
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
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.