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Enclosure

Ballynacarriga (Bear By.), County Cork, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Ballynacarriga, County Cork, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Ballynacarriga (Bear By.)
County
Cork
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
51.59025, -10.15277
SMR number
CO126-025004-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1841 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In rough moorland beside the NW seashore, on the promontory leading to Crow Head at the tip of the Beara Peninsula. A roughly D-shaped area (c. 100m NW-SE) with an almost straight NW side (L c. 160m) is enclosed by the rocky seashore at NW and elsewhere by the remains of a stone wall (T 0.5m; H 0.55m) protruding above the surface of shallow bog. The wall survives best along the S arc, where upright stones are set both along the perimeter and at right angles to it, as they occur intermittently among the collapsed stones. Along the N arc the stones are lower and several sections of the wall are gone. There is a hut site (CO126-025005-) within the enclosure and an anomalous stone group (CO126-025003-) lies c. 40m to the NE.

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.

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