Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Glennahulla (condons And Clongibbon By.), County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glennahulla (condons And Clongibbon By.)
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1935)
- Coordinates
- 52.24458, -8.36689
- SMR number
- CO019-038001-
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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 gently undulating pasture. Most southerly of two ringforts (CO 019-03802-), c. 10m apart, in overgrown patch of ground surrounded by field boundaries. Depicted as hachured oval enclosure on 1842, 1905 and 1935 OS 6-inch maps. Oval area enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.7m; ext. H 1.25m) with shallow external fosse (D c. 0.25m). Bank area to N destroyed by quarrying. Interior overgrown with ferns; grove of trees on W side.
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.