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Ringfort - rath
Ballydineen (fermoy By., Caherduggan Par.), County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballydineen (fermoy By., Caherduggan Par.)
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1937)
- Coordinates
- 52.20109, -8.59566
- SMR number
- CO025-028----
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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 tillage. Depicted as hachured, slightly oval-shaped enclosure (diam. c. 45m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map; as hachured circular raised area (diam. c. 45m), with external fosse N->SW, on 1905 and 1937 OS 6-inch maps. Levelled; field under crop of oats. Circular enclosure visible as cropmark of bank and external fosse in aerial photograph (CUCAP; BDS 15). Causewayed entrances across fosse, to SE and WSW, visible as cropmark in aerial photograph (CASAP); faint trace of smaller enclosure within 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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.