Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Castletownroche, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Castletownroche
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1935)
- Coordinates
- 52.18652, -8.48721
- SMR number
- CO026-053----
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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 break in NW-facing slope. Depicted as arc of hachures S->NNW on W side of N-S field boundary on 1935 OS 6-inch map. Arc (C 24m) survives as low earthen bank (int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.3m) S->NNW, with external fosse filled with field clearance stones. Bank broken by rock outcrop. Remainder of circular enclosure to E of field fence visible as cropmark of fosse 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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.