Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Boherascrub West, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Boherascrub West
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1937)
- Coordinates
- 52.21336, -8.73452
- SMR number
- CO024-039----
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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 level pasture. Circular, heavily overgrown area (diam. c. 40m) enclosed by two earthen banks with intervening fosse and external fosse. Both banks (inner bank: int. H c. 0.4m; ext. H 3m; outer bank: H 2m) heavily overgrown. Intervening fosse, wide and flat bottomed, waterlogged to E and SE; to NNW external fosse (D 0.8m) skirted by remains of low, stone-faced, field boundary. Interior almost totally inaccessible due to cover of whitethorn bushes except at centre.
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
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.