Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Creggannacourty, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Creggannacourty
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1937)
- Coordinates
- 52.26073, -8.77329
- SMR number
- CO016-030----
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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 tillage, on gentle W-facing slope, near top of hill. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) on 1842 and 1905 OS 6-inch maps; hachured on 1937 OS 6-inch map as circular area enclosed by fosse. According to local information, levelled, c. 1977; crop growing in field on date of visit; no visible surface trace of site noted. Circular enclosure visible as cropmark of bank and external fosse in aerial photograph (CASAP). Limekiln marked on WSW bank on 1842 OS 6-inch map.
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.