Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballymacpierce, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballymacpierce
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1842)
- Coordinates
- 52.19843, -8.78967
- SMR number
- CO024-013----
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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 tillage, on gentle S-facing slope. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map; arc survives in field boundary system to NW on 1905 and 1937 OS 6-inch maps. Levelled; no visible surface trace of site due to mature crop in field. Trivallate circular enclosure with entrance to SSW visible in aerial photograph (CASAP) as cropmark of fosses; internal feature off-centre to E visible as roughly circular area of differential growth; ring ditch (CO024-221---) and field systems (CO024-235---) also visible as crop marks in surrounding field. Bank visible as soilmark in aerial photograph (GSIAP, R719), skirted by levelled field boundary to NW.
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
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.