Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Curraghs, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Curraghs
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Kilpatrick Fort (1937)
- Coordinates
- 52.23795, -8.85180
- SMR number
- CO015-067001-
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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. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 35m) on 1842 and 1905 OS 6-inch maps; hachured circular area (diam. c. 25m) enclosed by fosse on 1937 OS 6-inch map. Circular area (diam. c. 41m) enclosed by shallow depression, also visible as differential growth pattern. According to local information, levelled 1960s-70s. Recorded by Bowman (1934, 384) as circular area (diam. 39yd) enclosed by 'fence...9 feet high' and 'fosse, 15 feet wide and 4 feet deep', with church site (CO015-06703-) and burial ground (CO015-06702-) in interior. Fosse of circular enclosure visible as cropmark in aerial photograph (CASAP).
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
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.