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Ringfort - rath

Rossagh West, County Cork, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Rossagh West, County Cork, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1883 · Ireland 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 13. (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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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