Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballyhoolahan West, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyhoolahan West
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated (1937)
- Coordinates
- 52.16455, -9.04250
- SMR number
- CO022-130----
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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 SW-facing slope. Depicted as hachured oval enclosure (c. 45m E-W; c. 30m N-S) on 1842 OS 6-inch map, incorporated into field fence system on N side; as broken line enclosing circular area (diam. c. 38m) on 1937 OS 6-inch map, to S of E-W field boundary which kinks to respect site. Roughly circular area (34.7m E-W; 29.5m N-S) defined by low rise (int. H 0.05m; ext. H 0.4m); faint trace of external fosse as slight depression WSW->NW. Surrounding field fences removed.
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
- Settlement clusterunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.