Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Caherduggan North, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Caherduggan North
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1842)
- Coordinates
- 52.19799, -8.63031
- SMR number
- CO025-012002-
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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 E-facing slope. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 35m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map. Levelled; penannular area (36m N-S) formed by scarp (H 1.6m) survives NW->SW. Field boundary immediately to W of site removed, edge of enclosure on this side difficult to define. Site of Caherduggan Castle (CO025-01201-) shown on OS 6-inch maps as on or just outside N edge of enclosure.
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
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 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.