Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Demesne (fermoy By.), County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Demesne (fermoy By.)
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.21585, -8.57085
- SMR number
- CO017-121----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 flat park land; within Deer Park of Doneraile demesne; in NW quadrant and adjoining NW side of large circular tree ring. Circular area (46m E-W; 42m N-S) defined by low rise (ext. H 0.36m); external fosse (D 0.24m); internal fosse (D 0.3m) SSE->N. Ridge forming arc and adjoining E bank cuts off sector of interior. Tree ring truncates fosse to NW. Inner fosse and internal partition may be later landscape features. Some large mature oak trees in interior.
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
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Decoy pondunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.