Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballyroe (imokilly By.), County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyroe (imokilly By.)
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1842)
- Coordinates
- 51.84091, -8.10031
- SMR number
- CO089-026----
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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 S-facing slope. Shown as arc of hachures on 1842 OS 6-inch map. According to Power (1940, 24) 'On Smith's farm were two lioses, but both have been destroyed'. No visible surface trace.
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.