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
- 52.31567, -8.73890
- SMR number
- CO007-033----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In pasture, on SE-facing slope. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 25m) skirted to NE by field boundary on 1842 OS 6-inch map; as hachured circular raised area (diam. c. 25m) on 1905 and 1936 OS 6-inch maps, skirted to NW and NE by field boundary. Levelled; circular area (30m N-S; 29m E-W) enclosed by shallow fosse, distinguished in parts by differential growth pattern. Surrounding field fences 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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.