Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Lyre (condons And Clongibbon By.), County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lyre (condons And Clongibbon By.)
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.21845, -8.14155
- SMR number
- CO020-022----
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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 pasture, on S-facing slope. Roughly circular area (32m E-W; 30m N-S) defined by low earthen bank (int. H 0.38m; ext. H 0.32m) except on N side. E half of interior bisected by roadway on N-S axis. At W side of roadway, rectangular area (20m N-S; 11m E-W), abutting circular enclosure to its N, defined by low bank. Locally known as 'the lios'.
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
- House - vernacular house1 mi
- Kiln - lime1 mi
- Burial ground2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.