Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballea, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballea
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1933)
- Coordinates
- 51.81513, -8.43761
- SMR number
- CO086-050----
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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 of E-W ridge. Roughly circular area (50m N-S; 46.7m E-W) enclosed by low inner bank (int. H 0.5m); fosse (D c. 1.8m); substantial outer bank (max. ext. H 3.2m) with berm on terrace (Wth 4m) on inner face. Entrance to S, with causeway across fosse; break in outer bank to NNW. Bank to W modified to incorporate limekiln (CO086-050001-). Interior saucer-shaped.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). 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
- Kiln - limeunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Mill - cornunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.