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
- 51.67532, -9.80630
- SMR number
- CO116-029001-
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 peaty ground, with occasional outcropping rock and surface boulders, on a W-facing slope at the foot of Hungry Hill. Turf-cutting has exposed the remains of relict stone field boundaries (T 0.7m; H 0.6m) which extend intermittently in a general N-S direction in a roughly rectangular area (c. 180m E-W; c. 70m N-S). The relict boundaries are located to the S of a stream that flows into Park Lake to the W. Two fulachtaí fia (CO116-028----, CO116-029----) are situated to the N of this stream. The relict field boundaries curve slightly to incorporate large boulders and it appears that the wall material may have originated mainly from field clearance.
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
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Settlement clusterunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.