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
- 52.16333, -9.01256
- SMR number
- CO022-155----
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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 of E-W ridge. Depicted as hachured roughly circular enclosure on 1842 OS 6-inch map; as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 35m) on 1904 and 1937 OS 6-inch maps. Circular area (c. 31.5m E-W; c. 30.5m N-S) enclosed by low rise (H 0.4m); shallow external fosse visible to E. Circular enclosure visible as shadow site of bank and external fosse in aerial photograph (CASAP). Cultivation ridges visible as cropmarks crossing field and enclosure on N-S axis also visible in aerial photograph (CASAP). Recorded by Bowman (1934, 491-2) as single-ramparted fort (dims. 36yd by 31yd; bank c. 7ft H) on H. O'Connor's land, with one-third of circuit levelled; interior c. 4ft higher than outside field level. One of a group of five ringforts (CO022-14703-; CO022-151---; CO022-152---; CO022-153---) 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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.