Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Oldcastletown, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Oldcastletown
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1936)
- Coordinates
- 52.26835, -8.42655
- SMR number
- CO018-009----
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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 level pasture. Depicted as subcircular enclosure on 1842 OS 6-inch map; as hachured arc, showing bank, W->SE on 1905 OS 6-inch map, and field boundary enclosing interior to S; hachured as circular platform (diam. c. 30m) with outer bank W->NE on 1936 OS 6-inch map. According to local information levelled c. 1982. Arc formed by earthen bank (H 0.8m) survives in corner of field to SE; in field to N circular cropmark indicates outline of site. Arc (W->E), formed by two upstanding banks with intervening fosse, visible in aerial photograph (GSIAP, R640, dated May 1977); S half of enclosure appears to be incorporated into field boundary system.
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.