Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballyhoolahan Middle, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyhoolahan Middle
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1937)
- Coordinates
- 52.16463, -9.02012
- SMR number
- CO022-147003-
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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. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 35m) on 1842, 1904 and 1937 OS 6-inch maps. Levelled; circular area (c. 35m E-W) defined by low rise (H 0.3m) N->W; low scarp elsewhere. Circular enclosure visible as cropmark of bank and external fosse in aerial photograph (CASAP). Recorded by Bowman (1934, 492) as single-ramparted fort (diam. 35yd; bank H c. 4ft) on H. O'Connor's land, with interior higher than outside field level. One of a group of five ringforts (CO022-151---; CO022-152---; CO022-153---; CO022-155---) in five adjoining fields.
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
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 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.