Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Assolas, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Assolas
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1937)
- Coordinates
- 52.16835, -8.84382
- SMR number
- CO023-151----
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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, atop rise to NE of Raheen house. Circular area (39m N-S) enclosed by inner earthen bank (int. H 0.8m; ext. H 1.35m) planted with trees; intervening fosse (D 0.8m); low outer bank ENE->SW. Inner bank disturbed to NW where bank material removed from between trees and dumped elsewhere on bank; pathway through interior joined by two breaks in bank to NE (Wth c. 8m) and SW (Wth c. 8m). Outer bank depicted all round on 1937 OS 6-inch map; Bowman (1934, 40) describes outer bank as 'levelled in several places'.
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
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.