Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cooldurragha (fermoy By., Carrigleamleary Par.), County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cooldurragha (fermoy By., Carrigleamleary Par.)
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tubber an eeling (1937)
- Coordinates
- 52.17417, -8.58599
- SMR number
- CO025-063001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 tillage, on SE-facing slope. Roughly circular area (38.3m N-S; 34m E-W) enclosed by inner earthen bank (int. H 1.2m; ext. H 0.2m); intervening fosse (D 1.5m) W->S; outer earthen bank (H 0.3m) W->E and SSE. Causewayed entrance (Wth 2m) to W. Trees grow on bank and in fosse. Interior covered in nettles; slopes gently down to S. Well depicted inside ESE bank on 1842 OS 6-inch map; in ESE fosse on 1937 OS 6-inch map and named Tubber an eeling. According to OS Memoranda (20-12-1931), 'locals call fort 'Tober aneeling'. Circular enclosure (CO025-062---) in same field c. 50m to NW.
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
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.