Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Coolasmuttane, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Coolasmuttane
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1936)
- Coordinates
- 52.36771, -8.74517
- SMR number
- CO002-007----
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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 level pasture. Depicted as hachured roughly circular enclosure on 1842 OS 6-inch map, with bank truncated by roadway on NE side; only W half of enclosure depicted on 1905 and 1936 OS 6-inch maps. Circular area (36.6m N-S) enclosed by faint trace of fosse E->S; earthen bank (H 0.4m) S->WSW with external fosse (D 0.9m); scarp WSW->N with external fosse. Interior grass covered; bank, scarp and fosse S->N partially overgrown with bushes.
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.