Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Grandy, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Grandy
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1937)
- Coordinates
- 52.17124, -8.56142
- SMR number
- CO025-092----
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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
Depicted as roughly pentagonal enclosure planted with trees in demesne of Castle Kevin on 1842 OS 6-inch map; as hachured circular area (diam. c. 32m) defined by fosse with outer bank incorporated into field boundary system on 1905 and 1937 OS 6-inch maps. Permission to visit site refused; according to local information levelled c. 1979. Upstanding univallate circular enclosure visible in aerial photograph (GSIAP, R524) dated 03-07-1975.
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.