Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballymorisheen, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballymorisheen
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1938)
- Coordinates
- 51.99686, -8.63945
- SMR number
- CO051-097----
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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 level patch of ground, on S-facing slope. Depicted as hachured circular, bivallate enclosure (diam. c. 50m) on 1904 OS 6-inch map; limekiln incorporated into W bank on 1842 OS 6-inch map. Levelled; circular area (55.5m N-S; 53m E-W) defined by low rise (max. H 1.2m) to N, E and S. External fosse visible as shallow depression to N and SW, most clearly visible where it disappears into N-S field boundary at W side. Low rise outside fosse to N may be evidence for counterscarp or second bank.
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
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.