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
- Lissatouragh (1937)
- Coordinates
- 52.19594, -8.81001
- SMR number
- CO024-068----
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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 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
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.