Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ardskeagh (fermoy By.), County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ardskeagh (fermoy By.)
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1937)
- Coordinates
- 52.32624, -8.63222
- SMR number
- CO008-008----
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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, atop rise, c. 220m N of Garrane River. Depicted as hachured, roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 45m) on 1842 and 1903 OS 6-inch maps; as hachured bivallate arc NW->SE on 1936 OS 6-inch map. Roughly circular area (27.8m N-S; 24.5m E-W) enclosed by scarp (H 0.25m); shallow intervening fosse; second bank incorporated into field fence system NNW->SE (H 1.4m), visible as low rise SE->NNW; second shallow intervening fosse; third earthen bank visible as low rise (int. H 0.15m) SSW->NNW. Interior slopes down to SSE.
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
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.