Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballynamona (barretts By.), County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynamona (barretts By.)
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1935)
- Coordinates
- 52.09658, -8.62410
- SMR number
- CO042-015----
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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 S-facing slope. Circular area (32m N-S; 31m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 1.2m); second bank (H 1.5m) exists to N and W, with intervening fosse. Second bank stone-faced on inside to W, where incorporated into field fence system. Fosse to S visible as band of darker vegetation. Entrance (Wth 2m) to E.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). 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
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.