Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Moated site
Rathmorgan, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathmorgan
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1935)
- Coordinates
- 52.34303, -8.64442
- SMR number
- CO003-010----
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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. Rectangular area (c. 30m NNW-SSE; c. 25m ENE-WSW) enclosed by two earthen banks (inner bank: int. H 0.4m, ext. H 1.4m to base of fosse; outer bank: int. H 1.6m to base of fosse, ext. H 0.9m) with intervening fosse; barely perceptible trace of external fosse on ENE side. Intervening fosse waterlogged. Site heavily overgrown; interior inaccessible. Bank at NW corner noticeably higher. Listed by Barry (1981, 83, no. 63).
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - vernacular houseunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.