Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Lohort West, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lohort West
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1937)
- Coordinates
- 52.16323, -8.79047
- SMR number
- CO024-120----
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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. Depicted as hachured circular area (diam. c. 35m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map; as hachured circular raised area (diam. c. 30m) on 1937 OS 6-inch map. Levelled; roughly circular slightly raised area (34m N-S; 32m E-W) survives; interior surface uneven. Circular enclosure visible as cropmark of bank in aerial photograph (CASAP, 28-06-1984); and as cropmark of fosse in second aerial photograph (CASAP, 24-07-1989). Possibly site recorded by Bowman (1934, 57) as levelled single-ramparted fort (diam. c. 32yd) on Mrs Cott's land.
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
- Fulacht fiaunder 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.