Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Gooseberryhill, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gooseberryhill
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1936)
- Coordinates
- 52.25338, -8.97797
- SMR number
- CO014-044001-
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 W-facing slope, overlooking Owenanore River. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m) on 1842, 1904 and 1936 OS 6-inch maps. No visible surface trace of site; according to local information levelled c. 1985. Recorded by Bowman (1934, 136-7) as double-ramparted fort (diam. 41yd) on John Flynn's land; 'outer rampart levelled. Inner rampart varies from 3ft to 5ft, and 9ft thick at base'. Possible souterrain (CO014-04402-) in interior.
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
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.