Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Walterstown, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Walterstown
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1935)
- Coordinates
- 51.86697, -8.21532
- SMR number
- CO088-005----
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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
On edge of steep drop to E shore of Ballynacorra river estuary. Hachured on 1935 OS 6-inch map as sub-circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m). Healy (1904, 114-5) describes it as being 'of very great size....though a large portion of it has disappeared....Some of the embankments of the rath are not less than twelve feet high'. Vincent MacMahon (pers. comm. May 1990) describes 'a low earthen bank (bordering the) NE and E, the NE bank possibly part of the original ringfort bank as suggested by locals'. Most of interior now damaged or built over by development of private marina.
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
- Mass-rockunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Orangeryunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.