Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballinard (carbery East (e.d.) By), County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballinard (carbery East (e.d.) By)
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1903)
- Coordinates
- 51.70847, -8.93746
- SMR number
- CO109-041----
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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 break in NE-facing slope. Oval area (44m N-S; 39m E-W) enclosed by two earthen banks, with intervening fosse. Inner bank survives N->S (int. H 0.45m); scarp elsewhere. Outer bank (H 1.3m) incorporated into field fence system to W and N; shallow external fosse to E (D 0.3m). Entrance to E (Wth 2m) with causeway across intervening fosse. Cultivation ridges cross interior close to N bank; mound in NE quadrant (diam. 4m; H 0.3m); possible souterrain (CO109-082---).
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). 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
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.