Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Lisnaboy Lower, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lisnaboy Lower
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1938)
- Coordinates
- 52.10998, -9.14627
- SMR number
- CO029-068----
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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, towards top of SE-facing slope. Circular area (42.5m N-S; 42.5m E-W) enclosed by two heavily overgrown earthen banks with intervening fosse. Inner bank (int. H 1.5m) survives SE->NE; scarp (H 0.5m) elsewhere. Outer bank survives to NW and NE; incorporated into townland boundary. Interior grass-covered. According to Broker (1937, 52), this is 'Lios na Buidhe or Bo Buidhe'. Possible souterrain (CO029-193---) 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
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 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.