Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Promontory fort - coastal
Ballynacarriga (bear By.), County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynacarriga (bear By.)
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Reen (1904)
- Coordinates
- 51.58934, -10.15264
- SMR number
- CO126-025001-
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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
Sub-rectangular promontory (2km NE-SW; 550m NW-SE) extends SW to Crow Head. Narrower neck (Wth 200m) on landward side defended by five earthen banks with intervening fosses. Bank one (int. H 1.6m) and bank two are substantial; bank three is low (H 0.7m); bank four and five are similar to bank three only extend from S side to entrance, a distance of 84m. Bank two stone-faced externallly; less substantial from entrance to N side. Entrance (Wth 3m) with causeways. Interior consists of undulating moorland broken by some rock outcrop. Disused field boundaries and anomalous scatter of stonesnoted on N side of promontory. According to local information, turf cut here up to recently.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Anomalous stone groupunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.