Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Rathnee, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathnee
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1937)
- Coordinates
- 52.16468, -8.72947
- SMR number
- CO024-144----
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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, atop hill. Depicted as hachured trivallate enclosure (diam. c. 40m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map; as hachured bivallate enclosure (diam. c. 50m) on 1905 OS 6-inch map; hachured as circular raised area defined by three concentric scarps on 1937 OS 6-inch map. Levelled; slight undulation noted in area of site; surrounding field fences to W and N removed. According to Grove White (1905-25, vol. 1, 128) 'fort surrounded by three ramparts'. Trivallate circular enclosure clearly visible as cropmark of fosses in aerial photograph (CASAP).
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.