Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Scart (condons And Clongibbon By.), County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Scart (condons And Clongibbon By.)
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1936)
- Coordinates
- 52.24584, -8.42240
- SMR number
- CO018-049----
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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, on gentle E-facing slope. Depicted on 1842 OS 6-inch map as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m); as hachured arc depicting scarp ENE->SW on 1905 and 1936 OS 6-inch maps. Circular area (30m N-S; 30m E-W) enclosed by low rise (max. H 0.6m). Break in bank to E (Wth 4m) and W (Wth 4.5m) with slight causeway. Low rise in NW quadrant of interior. Circular enclosure visible as shadow site of bank, with possible second bank NE->S, in aerial photograph (CASAP). Ringfort (CO018-048---) lies c. 28m to NW.
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.