Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Carrigeen (fermoy By.), County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrigeen (fermoy By.)
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Lissard (1937)
- Coordinates
- 52.23268, -8.60912
- SMR number
- CO017-077001-
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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, below crest of hillock, on SE-facing slope. Circular area (diam. c. 35m) enclosed by two earthen banks (inner bank, int. H 1m; ext. H 2.55m: outer bank, H 0.85m) with intervening fosse (D 0.85m); external fosse (D 0.75m); counterscarp bank (H 0.3m) to SW. Entrance with causeway through inner (Wth 3.2m) and outer banks; break in outer bank blocked by earth and branches. External fosse infilled for short section to E and SSE; truncated by field fence to N. Interior heavily overgrown. Described by Jones (1910, 53) as 'strong fort of Duntulcha, 76 yards in diameter at the widest part, and surrounded by three ramparts and two fosses,...'. Possible souterrain (CO017-07702-) associated with site.
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
- House - vernacular houseunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.