Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Aghacross, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Aghacross
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1936)
- Coordinates
- 52.25906, -8.39970
- SMR number
- CO018-022----
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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, above SSE-facing slope, overlooking River Funshion to S. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m) on 1842, 1905 and 1936 OS 6-inch maps. Low rise visible in area of site. According to local information levelled 1983, as water collecting in fosse caused flooding in lower fields. Banks visible as cropmark in aerial photograph (CASAP) shows enclosure to be bivallate. Ringfort (CO018-021---) in same field c. 70m to N.
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.