Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ballynacarriga (bear By.), County Cork, Ireland
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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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 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
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Anomalous stone groupunder 1 mi
- Promontory fort - coastalunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.