Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballyrusheen, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyrusheen
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Lisnaleenta (1937)
- Coordinates
- 52.19388, -8.81509
- SMR number
- CO024-067----
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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 gentle NNW-facing slope. Circular area (62m NNW-SSE) enclosed by heavily overgrown earthen bank (int. H 0.9m; ext. H 1.2m); external fosse (D 0.7m). Break in bank to SSE (Wth 5m) and NNW (Wth 4.5m), joined by farm trackway across interior. Fosse skirted by overgrown field boundary E->W. Interior partially overgrown with bushes.
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
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.