Old Shambles

Meat shambles built on E-facing slope adjacent to Bandon Fair Green. Sixteen-sided stone walled enclosure (diam. c. 45m; H c.6m) with corner buttresses built 1817; eastern bays have oeil-de-boeuf opes. Arched doorway in NW wall. Two-storey residential house fills bay to SW with inscribed stone (illegible) over central arched passage into interior, now blocked. Along internal S wall of enclosure are remains of lean-to stalls, on W side are modern dwellings/buildings. In centre, an 8-sided roofless slaughter house (diam. c. 20m; H 3.8m). The shambles is now in use as flats and retail units following renovations, c. 2000. 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. Updated by: Paul Walsh Revised date of upload: 17 March 2015