Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ballyroon, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyroon
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.56361, -9.77003
- SMR number
- CO138-027----
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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)
- 1868 · 4. Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (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 a rough pasture hollow between gorse and heather-covered ridges. A D-shaped area (7m N-S) with the straight side at N (L 6m) is defined by the base of outcropping rock at N and elsewhere by the remains of a roughly constructed drystone wall (T 0.55m; H 0.6m) of mainly large stones. Rubble is scattered in the interior and along the perimeter. The entire enclosure is obscured by a dense overgrowth of gorse, heather and ferns.
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Holed stoneunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.