Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Glennamucklagh East, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glennamucklagh East
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated (1936)
- Coordinates
- 52.22037, -9.11417
- SMR number
- CO013-027----
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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 SW-facing slope, commanding view across Owenkeal River valley. Depicted as roughly square area (c. 20m x c. 20m) on 1936 OS 6-inch map, defined by trees and broken line. Area 15.5m E-W by 14m N-S planted with sycamore trees; field clearance material dumped around perimeter. According to local information site of 'fort'. Bowman (1934, 112) recorded levelled single-ramparted fort (diam. 18yd) on Mrs. O'Callaghan's land.
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
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