Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Toorreagh, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Toorreagh
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1936)
- Coordinates
- 52.30417, -8.35999
- SMR number
- CO010-014----
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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 NNE-facing slope, below summit of Knockatluah. Circular area (32m E-W; 31m N-S) enclosed by two earthen banks with intervening fosse (max. D 1.25m). Both inner (int. H 0.7m) and outer (H 1.6m) banks very pronounced on down slope but survive as low undulations on upslope. Gap in both banks to NNW and SSE. Fosse deepest on upslope, shallow elsewhere. Interior cut into hillside on SSW side to compensate for hillslope; undulations noted in interior surface form no definite shape.
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
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Crossunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.