Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Rathnacally, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathnacally
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Rath na Caillighe (1936)
- Coordinates
- 52.32479, -8.70308
- SMR number
- CO007-048----
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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 SE-facing slope. Depicted as hachured, nearly circular enclosure (c. 100m ENE-WSW; c. 90m NNW-SSE) on 1842 OS 6-inch map; as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 80m) on 1905 OS 6-inch map, with surrounding fosse; hachured as nearly circular area (c. 70m ENE-WSW; c. 60m NNW-SSE) on 1936 OS 6-inch map, surrounded by fosse. Levelled; faint trace of fosse visible E->SW; fosse clearly visible as shadow site in aerial photograph (AP: Dr. D.D.C. Pochin Mould). Roughly circular bivallate enclosure visible in aerial photograph (GSIAP, R609) as cropmark of banks, intervening fosse and external fosse.
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
- House - vernacular houseunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.