Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ardglass (orrery And Kilmore By., Shandrum Par.), County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ardglass (orrery And Kilmore By., Shandrum Par.)
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1936)
- Coordinates
- 52.31215, -8.75241
- SMR number
- CO007-032----
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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 SSE-facing slope. Depicted as hachured subrectangular enclosure (c. 20m NE-SW; c. 15m NW-SE) on 1842 OS 6-inch map; as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 20m) on 1905 OS 6-inch map; as hachured circular raised area (diam. c. 20m) on 1936 OS 6-inch map. Levelled; no visible surface trace. According to local information, circular in shape and levelled late 1970s/early 1980s. Circular enclosure visible in aerial photograph (GSIAP, R611; dated May 1977) as soilmark of bank. Levelled ringfort (CO007-031---) in adjoining field to NNW.
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.