County: Cork Site name: BALLYROBERT
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: —
Author: D. Power, UCC
Site type: Ringfort - rath
Period/Dating: Early Medieval (AD 400-AD 1099)
ITM: E 586952m, N 592057m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.080296, -8.190349
The landowner bulldozed approximately one third of a trivallate ringfort prior to the construction of farm buildings. Subsequently, a two-week excavation was carried out to investigate a break in the ringfort’s defences in the area where it was proposed to build a slurry pit. A trench (3m x 4m) was opened across this break which revealed a gravel path, of recent date, running through it. No features or finds contemporary with the occupation of the fort were discovered. A section was cut across the ringfort’s defences revealing a dump-construction triple bank and fosse arrangement; the banks much denuded and the fosses well silted-up.
