Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Ballynacallagh, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynacallagh
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.60270, -10.15952
- SMR number
- CO126-030001-
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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 pasture, beside the rocky seashore on the SE-facing slopes of a small island, Ilanebeg, overlooking Dursey Sound. The fern-covered remains of a rectangular hut site (6m E-W; 3.3m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 0.9m; H 0.3m). The cliff-edge of an inlet is 3m to the N. There is a hut site (CO126-030005-) c. 16m to the SE. (Breen 2003b; 2006, 36)
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
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- Promontory fort - coastalunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.