Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Egmont , County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Egmont
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1937)
- Coordinates
- 52.26320, -8.75833
- SMR number
- CO016-041001-
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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 S-facing slope. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure on 1842 and 1937 OS 6-inch maps; hachured as circular area (diam. c. 25m) enclosed by fosse and outer bank on 1905 OS 6-inch map. According to local information, levelled c. 1974; cattle pen built in NW quadrant of site. Bivallate circular enclosure visible as cropmark of fosses in aerial photograph (CASAP), with outer fosse conjoined with cropmark of fosse of levelled ringfort (CO016-04102-) to S.
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.