Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Field boundary
Ballynaule, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynaule
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.46405, -9.74840
- SMR number
- CO152-005----
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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
On White Strand at inner end of Crookhaven Bay. Row of fifteen contigious upright stones (H 0.5-1.6m) aligned c. E-W, apart for two stones at western end aligned N-S. Outlyer 8m N of row (H 1.3m; 0.7m x 0.2m) aligned N-S. Only top half of stones visible at high tide. According to Mitchell (1976, 182) probable part of submerged field boundary.
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
- Fish palaceunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
- Fish palaceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.