Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Rossagh West, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rossagh West
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated (1937)
- Coordinates
- 52.23864, -8.60486
- SMR number
- CO017-044001-
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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 SW-facing slope. Depicted on 1842 OS 6-inch map as roughly circular enclosure defined by hachured semicircular arc SE->NNW (c. 70m SE-NW), by roadway and townland boundary to E and by straight field boundary to N, which truncates site; arc shown as field boundary on 1906 and 1937 OS 6-inch maps, with small well/pond off centre to W. Levelled; low scarp visible to SW; soil generally darker in area of site; slight depression in interior may to be remains of well/pond marked on OS 6-inch map. Jones (1910, 53) recorded that 'a portion of this fine fort was levelled to make a boundary between two farms...It was 85 yards in diameter...', with '...a well in the centre...' and a possible souterrain (CO017-04402-).
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
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.