Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Lackaleigh, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lackaleigh
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1842)
- Coordinates
- 52.17776, -8.84345
- SMR number
- CO023-102----
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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 tillage, c. 50m from E bank of Awbeg River and c. 80m ESE of 'Chieftain's Ford' river crossing. Depicted as hachured bivallate circular enclosure (diam. c. 25m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map. Levelled; no visible surface trace of site. Circular enclosure visible in aerial photograph (GSIAP, R720), as cropmark of fosse with inner bank visible to S and second bank visible to NW; landway truncated enclosure on E side. 'Ringfort' visible as cropmark in field in 1973 (UCC).
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
- Fordunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.