Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Newtown South, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Newtown South
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1842)
- Coordinates
- 52.34651, -8.77580
- SMR number
- CO002-082----
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 pasture, on N-facing slope. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map. Circular area (36m N-S) defined by grass-covered earthen bank (int. H 0.45m; ext. H 0.65m) with external fosse (D 0.3m). Internally, bank face not well defined, top of bank slopes down gently towards interior which itself slopes down to N.
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
- House - vernacular houseunder 1 mi
- House - vernacular houseunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.