Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Shanballymore Upper, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Shanballymore Upper
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1936)
- Coordinates
- 52.22377, -8.45704
- SMR number
- CO018-072----
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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, at base of gentle SE-facing slope. Circular area (31.5m N-S; 29.5m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.8m; ext. H 2m); external fosse survives as shallow depression N->SSW. Entrance (Wth 3.5m) to SE. Interior raised above outer field level; NW quadrant higher than remainder; arc, formed by low rise (max. H 0.3m), runs immediately inside bank NE->NW, continuing across entrance area.
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.