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
- 52.25918, -8.75450
- SMR number
- CO016-048----
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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 above sharp fall of ground to S which has been quarried into. Depicted as circular enclosure on 1842 OS 6-inch map; more oval-shaped on 1905 and 1937 OS 6-inch maps. Roughly oval area (43m E-W; 36.3m N-S) defined by heavily overgrown, earthen bank (int. H 0.6m; ext. H 0.8m) to N; scarp to E, S and W; external fosse (D 0.65m) to W and N. Interior slopes down to SE; partially overgrown; quarried into to SE and W. Overgrowth obscures face of S scarp, possibly truncated by quarry.
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.