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
- 52.16504, -9.01196
- SMR number
- CO022-153----
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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. 25m) on 1842, 1904 and 1937 OS 6-inch maps; lime kiln in SE bank on 1842 OS 6-inch map; hachured bank replaced to SE by straight line on 1904 and 1937 OS 6-inch maps. According to local information, levelled c. 1981. Levelled bank survives as low rise NE->SE; also defined by band of yellow grass which survives all round enclosing circular area (26.7m E-W; 25.3m N-S). Break in cropmark to SSE (Wth c. 2.6m) may mark entrance. Bank visible as cropmark in aerial photograph (CASAP). Recorded by Bowman (1934, 491) as single-ramparted oval enclosure (dims. 25yd by 22yd; bank H c. 5ft), with interior c. 3ft higher than surrounding field level. One of a group of five ringforts (CO022-14703-; CO022-151---; CO022-152---; 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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.