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Ringfort - rath

Ballyrusheen, County Cork, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Ballyrusheen, County Cork, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Ballyrusheen
County
Cork
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
Lissatouragh (1937)
Coordinates
52.19594, -8.81001
SMR number
CO024-068----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1883 · Ireland 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In pasture, on gentle NNW-facing slope above Awbeg River. Circular area (diam. c. 45m) defined by three earthen banks with intervening fosses; shallow external fosse to NE. Inner bank (int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.9m) SE->SW; scarp to N. Middle bank (int. H 0.9m) broken to NW (Wth 3m) and NNW (Wth 3m). Outer bank (H 0.7m) low NW->NNE, with break to NW (Wth 2.5m) and NNW (Wth 6m). Banks to W and interior heavily overgrown and inaccessible. Bank depicted as forming continuous spiral from interior outwards on 1842 OS 6-inch map. According to Bowman (1934, 424), Lisatouragh 'more probably means Lios na Teamhrach - Fort of the Royal Palace'; he described triple ramparted fort with annexe to N (21yd x 19yd); foundations of hut sites, visible as grass-covered mounds, in interior.

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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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