Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Broghill North, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Broghill North
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1936)
- Coordinates
- 52.36404, -8.69986
- SMR number
- CO002-024----
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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 N-facing slope. Circular area (diam. c. 25m) enclosed by two earthen banks (inner bank: int. H 0.55m) with intervening fosse. Outer fosse survives to W and N; field boundary runs outside outer bank to E, with stream flowing in between; wide marshy depression (D 0.7m; Wth 12.6m) to S. Enclosure heavily overgrown with hawthorn bushes. Rectangular enclosure (CO002-023---) c. 20m to SW in same field, and circular enclosure (CO002-025---) in adjoining field to E.
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
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.