Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Field boundary
Rossmackowen Commons, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rossmackowen Commons
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.67284, -9.82977
- SMR number
- CO115-106004-
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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, in an area of cutaway bog, on a SE-facing slope. Turf-cutting has exposed a network of relict stone field boundaries (max. T 0.6m; H 0.1-0.35m) that occurs intermittently throughout a roughly rectangular area (c. 750m NW-SE; c. 400m NE-SW). The collapsed walls are mainly curvilinear and protrude above the surface of the remaining shallow bog. Many of the stones are upright and are set at right angles to the line of the wall. Several gaps occur and occasionally the walls run on into small areas of deeper uncut bog. There are five cairns (CO115-106005-, CO115-106006-, CO115-106008-, CO115-106009-, CO115-106010-) and five hut sites (CO115-106001-, CO115-106002-, CO115-106003-, CO115-106007-, CO115-106011-) within this field boundary network.
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
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.