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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 (1934)
- Coordinates
- 51.83314, -8.03649
- SMR number
- CO089-038----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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, on edge of NE-facing slope. Levelled; fosse survives as shallow depression enclosing oval area (56m N-S; 40m E-W); gorse bushes grow on bank area to S. Aerial photograph (CASAP, August 1989) shows field under tillage, with fosse clear as cropmark. Earthen bank (int. H 2ft; ext. H 5ft) with external fosse (D 3ft; Wth 6ft - 10ft) recorded in 1968 (OPW).
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
- House - vernacular houseunder 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.