Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Curragh (duhallow By., Kilbrin Par.) , County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Curragh (duhallow By., Kilbrin Par.)
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.20076, -8.83151
- SMR number
- CO023-304----
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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 E-facing slope. Roughly circular area (45m N-S; 41m E-W) defined by low rise (int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.2m); shallow intervening fosse, truncated by roadway to E and by field boundary to S; outer bank survives as low rise SW->NNW with shallow external fosse. Visible as shadow site in aerial photograph (Dr D.D.C. Pochin Mould, March 1993).
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
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.