Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Lisleagh (fermoy By.), County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lisleagh (fermoy By.)
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1935)
- Coordinates
- 52.21957, -8.32115
- SMR number
- CO019-094----
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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. Circular area (diam. c. 29m) enclosed by two earthen banks with intervening fosse. Inner face of inner bank (int. H 1m; ext. H 0.8m) slopes gently down towards centre giving saucer-shaped profile to interior; bank pushed into fosse to S for c. 4m. Intervening fosse (D 0.8m) waterlogged and overgrown. Outer bank (H 0.8m) incorporated into roadside boundary to SE. Possible entrance (Wth 5m) in inner bank to NNE, smaller corresponding break in outer bank; cattle gap through bank to NNW. Possible souterrain (CO019-134---) 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
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 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.