Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Bohonagh, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bohonagh
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.58032, -8.99965
- SMR number
- CO143-032004-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 level area pasture, on S-facing slope 1.5km N of Rosscarbery Bay; excavated in 1959 (Fahy 1961). Group of 21 postholes, forming three sides of a rectangle (L 10m; Wth 3m) and single central posthole were exposed. Located c. 13m S of multiple stone circle (CO143-032001-); cup-marked stone (CO143-032002-) and boulder burial (CO143-032003-) close by to NE. Impossible to determine whether the hut was in any way associated.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
Nearby in the register
- Stone circle - multiple-stoneunder 1 mi
- Cupmarked stoneunder 1 mi
- Boulder-burialunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.