Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fish palace
Ballynaule, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynaule
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.46164, -9.74443
- SMR number
- CO152-003----
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
In pasture, on isthmus to E of Crookhaven. Remains of wall (8.5m NE-SW; max. H 3.3m; wall thickness 0.7m) along S side of road; coursed rubble construction; possibly associated with fish palace mentioned by Went (1946, 146-147).
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
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
- Fish palaceunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.