Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cloonsillagh, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonsillagh
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1937)
- Coordinates
- 52.30051, -8.88543
- SMR number
- CO006-055----
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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 E-facing slope. Depicted as oval area (c. 35m NE-SW; c. 25m NW-SE) defined by hachured scarp SW->E and by kink in townland/barony boundary elsewhere; only kink in boundary fence shown on 1842 and 1905 OS 6-inch maps. Levelled; arc (C 29.8m) formed by earthen bank (int. H 1.1m; ext. H 1.6m) survives E->SW, incorporated into field boundary system; shallow external fosse (D0.3m) at SW. Inner face of bank stone-faced, similar to surrounding field fences. Faint trace of low rise enclosing remainder of interior (diam. 33.5m N-S); height not measurable.
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
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Kiln - limeunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.