Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Banefune, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Banefune
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1937)
- Coordinates
- 52.20737, -8.63451
- SMR number
- CO025-014001-
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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, atop knoll. Circular area (24.8m NW-SE) defined by scarp (H 0.95m). Sharp fall of ground immediately outside scarp on E side and c. 4-6m beyond site N->NE. Low worn earthen bank (int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.4m) SSE->SSW separated from scarp by fosse. Small quarry cuts into interior to SE; natural slope quarried into to N. Interior level; possible souterrain (CO025-01403-) at centre. Line of stones atop scarp to ESE. Ringfort (CO025-01402-) lies c. 15m to S.
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
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.