Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Canalough, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Canalough
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.59426, -10.04084
- SMR number
- CO127-050020-
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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
On the E extremity of a rough pasture ridge with occasional outcropping rock, on the seashore on the S side of Blackball Harbour. The remains of a rectangular hut site (4.9m N-S; 2.6m E-W) defined by a grass-covered bank (Wth 0.8m; H 0.6m) of earth and stone along the W, S and E sides and by the face of outcropping rock at the N which is topped with a drystone wall. A vertical slab (L 0.8m; T 0.15m; H 0.2m), which forms an internal facing for the bank at S, stands on the edge of the seashore. A break in the W bank may indicate the location of the entrance. The hut site is sheltered by the outcropping rock at N. Another hut site (CO127-050019-) is 16m to the NNE.
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.