Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Moyge, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Moyge
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1936)
- Coordinates
- 52.29310, -8.77730
- SMR number
- CO007-096----
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 break in NW-facing slope and overlooking stream to NE. Oval, slightly raised area (27.2m E-W; 21.3m N-S) enclosed by low earthen bank (max. int. H 0.7m) to S and W; scarp (H 0.85m) elsewhere; external fosse (D 0.6m) to E, W and N. Bank and scarp heavily overgrown. Fosse shallow to N; waterlogged to W.
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
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Kiln - limeunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.