Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Curraghcloonabro West, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Curraghcloonabro West
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1936)
- Coordinates
- 52.32637, -8.80248
- SMR number
- CO007-010----
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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 pasture. Circular area (28.2m N-S; 27.1m E-W) enclosed by two low, grass-covered earthen banks with intervening fosse. Inner bank (int. H 0.55m) uniform in height all round. Poorly defined outer bank (H 0.15m) survives best SE->NW. Taking up most of interior is circular area (diam. c. 22m) raised 0.3m above level of surrounding surface; inside S bank is depression (L 4m; Wth 1.4m) partially waterlogged.
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
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.