Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballyveelick, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyveelick
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1935)
- Coordinates
- 52.18585, -8.51754
- SMR number
- CO026-037----
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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, below crest of ridge, on NW-facing slope. Circular area (49m N-S; 48m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (max. int. H 1.2m; ext. H 1.6m); external fosse (D 0.6m) SE->WSW, shallow fosse elsewhere. Bank planted with mature deciduous trees; replaced by small section of dry stone walling to W; break to NW, where ground within gap quarried or dug into. Remains of lime kiln in bank to SSW, surviving as subrectangular earthwork protruding into interior. Interior grass-covered; shown as planted with trees on 1842 OS 6-inch map.
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
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.