Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballymague, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballymague
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1937)
- Coordinates
- 52.20680, -8.65292
- SMR number
- CO025-007----
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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 gently rolling pasture. Roughly circular area (35.5m N-S; 32m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.9m; ext. H 1.35m); external fosse (D 0.25m) to S and W. Bank stone faced to N where incorporated into field fence system; elsewhere remains of stone facing exist on outer bank face. Laneway skirts bank to N and E; external face of bank to E built outwards to form stone-faced angled corner. Interior slopes down gently to S; low, L-shaped bank (L 6.3m E-W; L 2.5m N-S; H 0.25m) in NW quadrant; possible souterrain (CO025-129---) off-centre to W.
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
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.