Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballygroman Lower, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballygroman Lower
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1940)
- Coordinates
- 51.86298, -8.67019
- SMR number
- CO085-002----
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. Depicted as hachured, roughly circular raised area and circular raised area (diam. c. 40m) on 1842 and 1904 OS 6-inch maps, respectively. Levelled; no visible surface trace. According to Hartnett (1939, 158), outline was 'clearly traceable' suggesting 'single-ramparted ringfort 165 feet in overall diameter'.
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Mill - cornunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.