Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Lisrobin West, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lisrobin West
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1937)
- Coordinates
- 52.19242, -9.07242
- SMR number
- CO022-012001-
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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 N-facing slope. Circular area (c. 62.5m E-W; 62m N-S) enclosed by inner earthen bank (int. H 2m); intervening fosse; outer earthen bank (H 1.05m); shallow external fosse (D 0.45m) to N, E and S. Break in inner bank to SE (max. Wth 4.7m) and to SSW (Wth 3.3m); bank continues as faint rise across both breaks. Intervening fosse waterlogged to N with stream flowing N from it; W half very overgrown. Berm on inner face of outer bank all round, to E and S appears to be due to slippage. Outer bank very low to N. Interior raised on N side to compensate for hillslope; crossed by remains of cultivation ridges; shallow depression inside base of bank S->SW, ends in a mound (H 0.6m). Souterrain (CO022-01202-) in interior. Aerial photograph (CASAP) taken September 1991 shows outer bank levelled.
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
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.