Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Baile Mhic íre, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Baile Mhic íre
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1842)
- Coordinates
- 51.93674, -9.13181
- SMR number
- CO058-045----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 break in S-facing slope. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 28m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map; surviving as arc in field fence system to N on 1903 and 1940 OS 6-inch maps. Circular area (24m N-S) defined by earthen bank (H 1.8m) WNW->NE; scarp (H 1m) SE->WNW. Bank overgrown with hawthorn similar to surrounding field boundaries.
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
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.