Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Mahanagh, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mahanagh
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.22732, -8.82038
- SMR number
- CO016-248----
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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 marshy ground, atop hillock. Depicted as small irregular-shaped field (c. 45m E-W; c. 45m N-S) on 1842 OS 6-inch map. Roughly circular slightly raised area (34m N-S), adjoining field fence to S, defined by low scarp with shallow fosse (D 0.22m) NE->SSE; very slight scarp, much interfered with, SSW->NNW. Interior bisected by modern drain running N-S; flat-bottomed pit (D 0.7m; Wth at top 1m; Wth at bottom 0.4m), containing charcoal, visible in E-facing section. Locally known as fort. Recorded by Bowman (1934, 379) as single-ramparted fort (diam. c. 65yd) on C. O' Reilly's land, with two-thirds of rampart levelled and remainder c. 6ft high forming field boundary.
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
- Standing stoneunder 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.