Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballyenahan South, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyenahan South
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1936)
- Coordinates
- 52.22672, -8.39722
- SMR number
- CO018-087001-
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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 level ground, above gentle SW-facing slope; c. 250m to NNE of Ballyenahan House. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 35m) on 1842, 1905 and 1936 OS 6-inch maps. Levelled in 1965 during 'Land project scheme' (OPW). Field boundary at S side of site survives; cartographic evidence (1842, 1905 and 1936 OS 6-inch maps) suggests boundary may incorporate portion of original bank. Souterrain (CO018-08702-) discovered during levelling of enclosure. May be 'round fort', described by Windele (1897, 377) on farm of 'Ballyanahan', as '50 paces in diameter; a low rampart on the inside, and about eight feet high on the outside, was surrounded with a mud ditch...entrance, lay at the north east'. Circular enclosure visible as cropmark of fosse in aerial photograph (CUCAP; AYP 87).
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
- Country houseunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Mill - cornunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.