Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Baunnanooneeny, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Baunnanooneeny
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1936)
- Coordinates
- 52.27763, -8.37534
- SMR number
- CO010-032----
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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 pasture, on gentle SE-facing slope. Roughly circular area (50m E-W; 46m N-S) enclosed by two earthen banks with intervening fosse. Inner bank (int. H 1.3m) survives best W->NE. Outer bank (H 1m) incorporated into field fence system WSW->NE; low (H 0.75m) and narrow elsewhere. Faint trace of external fosse to W; intervening fosse deepest on upslope (W->NE). Entrance to SW. Interior slopes gently down to S; shallow depression inside inner bank.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). 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
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.