Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Barleyhill East, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Barleyhill East
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1903)
- Coordinates
- 51.59195, -9.06259
- SMR number
- CO134-066----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 tillage, atop hillock. Hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 50m) on OS 6-inch map (1842). Arc of earthen bank (H 1.4m) survives N->SE, with external fosse (D 1.2m). L-shaped field fence approximates line of original bank to S and W. Truncated to N by silage yard. Slight bank arcs NNE->SSE across interior.
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
- Mining complexunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Bawnunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.