Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Walshestown (muskerry East By.), County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Walshestown (muskerry East By.)
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1938)
- Coordinates
- 51.89557, -8.68872
- SMR number
- CO072-050001-
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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 SE-facing slope. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 50m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map; defined by bank SSE->NNW and scarp elsewhere on 1904 OS 6-inch map; defined by scarp N->SW on 1938 OS 6-inch map. Circular area (50.5m E-W; 47.5m N-S) enclosed by low earthen bank (int. H 0.5m) to WNW; low undulations to W and N; scarp (H 1.8m) to E; external fosse (D 0.6m) SSE->W; outer earthen bank (H 1.4m) SSE->W. Outer bank stone-faced externally. Interior raised on E and S sides to compensate for hillslope; possible souterrain (CO072-050002-) in W half. Hartnett (1939, 135-6) describes inner rampart surviving in SW quadrant, but levelled to E and N; entrance to N; fort ploughed in the past.
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
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.