Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballyvorisheen (orrery And Kilmore By.), County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyvorisheen (orrery And Kilmore By.)
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1937)
- Coordinates
- 52.24856, -8.70047
- SMR number
- CO016-134002-
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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 N-facing slope. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 25m) on 1842, 1905 and 1937 OS 6-inch maps. Site appears to have been levelled; close inspection not possible due to hostile animal in field. Arc S->N, formed by cropmark of fosse, visible in aerial photograph (CASAP). Ringfort (CO016-013401-) in adjoining field c. 45m to W; souterrain (CO016-13602-) c. 50m to NE.
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
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.