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
- 52.21028, -8.73577
- SMR number
- CO024-040----
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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 gentle WNW-facing slope. Circular area (36m N-S; 34m E-W) enclosed by heavily overgrown, earthen bank (int. H 1.3m; ext. H 1.9m). Break (Wth 5.3m) in bank to WNW. Field clearance-like material dumped against outer face of bank. Outside bank is 4m wide platform defined by scarp (H c. 0.4m). Scarp may be remains of outer bank depicted on 1842 OS 6-inch map which, according to local information, was levelled within living memory.
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.