Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballybraher (imokilly By., Kilmahon Par.), County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballybraher (imokilly By., Kilmahon Par.)
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1842)
- Coordinates
- 51.83071, -8.03687
- SMR number
- CO089-037----
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Shown on 5 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, immediately E of steep sided stream valley. Depicted as circular enclosure on 1842 OS 6-inch map. Arc formed by earthen bank (H 1m) survives W->NE, with shallow external fosse; field boundary to S may incorporate earthen bank. Aerial photograph (CASAP, August 1989) shows arc W->NE and immediate field fences to N levelled.
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
- House - vernacular houseunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.