Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Curryglass (orrery And Kilmore By.), County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Curryglass (orrery And Kilmore By.)
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1936)
- Coordinates
- 52.32986, -8.81054
- SMR number
- CO007-009----
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 gentle S-facing slope, to N of stream. Roughly circular raised area (44m E-W; 37.8m N-S) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1.7m) NW->SSE; scarp (H 1.55m) elsewhere. External fosse survives to N, cut into hillside; ground outside fosse at higher level than interior; stream flows in fosse. Gap in bank to NE (Wth 1.9m) and SE (Wth 2m). Interior surface cut up by cattle; W side at lower level and separated from remainder of interior by scarp; near centre is ring-barrow-like feature caused by cattle feeder, now removed.
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
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.