Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Banteer, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Banteer
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1938)
- Coordinates
- 52.13045, -8.92134
- SMR number
- CO031-061----
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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, on slight eminence above flood plain of River Blackwater. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map; indicated as D-shaped enclosure on 1904 OS 6-inch map; hachured E half of circular enclosure survives on edge of natural scarp on 1938 OS 6-inch map. D-shaped area (c. 40m NNE-SSW; projecting c. 20m to ESE) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.65m; ext. H 1.65m) NNE->SSW, with external fosse (D 0.55m). Straight edge on W side defined by low cliff face. Interior overgrown with scrub and trees.
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
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.