Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Field boundary
Fanahy, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Fanahy
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.66035, -9.94857
- SMR number
- CO115-139----
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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 grazing, on cutaway bog, on an E-facing slope. A collapsed, relict, drystone field boundary (T 0.65m; H 0.55m) is exposed in the bog. The field boundary extends (L c. 80m) in a general N-S direction from an E-flowing river at the N. It continues for another c. 70m but along this stretch only the tops of the stones are visible intermittently above the surface. From here the field boundary curves gently to the SW where it appears to end. The exposed relict boundary seems to rest on the base clay beneath the bog. Elsewhere in the uncut bog, the top of the stone wall is visible intermittently and disappears entirely where the bog is deeper.
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
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.