Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Lisduggan South, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lisduggan South
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated (1937)
- Coordinates
- 52.17200, -8.82758
- SMR number
- CO023-167----
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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 level ground, atop low rise. Circular area (35m E-W; 34m N-S) enclosed by heavily overgrown earthen bank (int. H 0.6m; ext. H 1m); shallow external fosse (D 0.2m). Break in bank to S (Wth 5m) with entrance gate to interior; second break to NW, overgrown. Fosse used as laneway at E side. Interior planted with potatoes. Overlooked by Lisduggan ringfort (CO023-163---), which lies c. 200m to N.
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
- Kiln - limeunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.