Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Delliga, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Delliga
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1936)
- Coordinates
- 52.33155, -8.87707
- SMR number
- CO001-012----
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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 W-facing slope. Depicted as hachured subsquare enclosure (c. 40m NE-SW; c. 40m NW-SE) on 1842 and 1904 OS 6-inch maps, bisected by NE-SW field fence; as hachured, roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m) on 1936 OS 6-inch map, defined by bank to SE of field boundary and by scarp elsewhere. Levelled; scarp (H 1.3m) to SW indicates position of levelled bank. Bisecting field boundary survives.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). 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
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.