Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballynamuck, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynamuck
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1937)
- Coordinates
- 52.25508, -8.73074
- SMR number
- CO016-059----
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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. Depicted as hachured roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 35m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map; as arc SE->W of single hachures on 1905 OS 6-inch map; as circular raised area with external fosse to S on 1937 OS 6-inch map. Roughly circular area (28m N-S; 26m E-W) raised 1.4m above level of surrounding field. Interior saucer shaped, surrounded by fosse (D 0.45m) SSE->SW; slight trace of silted-up fosse to W as gentle slope down to base of scarp. Natural mound or raised area a short distance beyond enclosure to N.
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
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.