Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fish palace
Farranacoush (sherkin Island), County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Farranacoush (sherkin Island)
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated (1902)
- Coordinates
- 51.47624, -9.39978
- SMR number
- CO149-019003-
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 1841 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Remains of fish palace (Went 1946) on E coast of Sherkin Island. Press beam support wall (L 20.4m; H 3.5m; wall thickness 1.37m) stands just E of Friary (CO149-019002-). On E and W elevation support wall are twenty-nine lintelled niches (H 0.18m; Wth 0.15m; D 0.2m) at 0.8m above ground level and eleven beam holes (Wth 0.3m; H 0.35m) peforating wall 1.9m above ground level.
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
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Religious house - Franciscan friarsunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Bawnunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.