Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Billeragh West, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Billeragh West
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.22264, -8.16286
- SMR number
- CO020-020----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 S-facing slope. D-shaped area (straight side c. 45.7m NW-SE; projecting c. 21m to SW) defined by road boundary on straight side and by earthen bank (ext. H 1.2m) SE->NW. External fosse (D 0.2m) survives best SE->SW. Internal fosse (D 0.2m) visible to W. Interior raised; heavily overgrown. Disused laneway skirts enclosure to W. Locally known as site of ringfort.
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
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rath2 mi
- Souterrain2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.