Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Rossline, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rossline
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1842)
- Coordinates
- 52.20508, -8.93576
- SMR number
- CO023-010002-
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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 NE-facing slope. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure on 1842 OS 6-inch map. Levelled; arc (C 29m) formed by low rise W->E survives on N side of E-W field boundary; no visible surface trace of circular enclosure to S of fence. One of two sites described by Bowman (1934, 185-186), on land of Mr Foley, as levelled single-ramparted forts with diam. of 29yd and 35yd. Ringfort (CO023-01001-) lies c. 25m to W.
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
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.