Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Curraghagalla South, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Curraghagalla South
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1935)
- Coordinates
- 52.20530, -8.30342
- SMR number
- CO027-032----
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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 W-facing slope. Circular area (33m N-S; 32m E-W) enclosed by two earthen banks with intervening fosse. Inner bank (int. H 0.8m) survives best NNE->SSW; lower elsewhere with inner face surviving as slight internal lip. Intervening fosse V-shaped in profile. Outer bank (H 0.8m) incorporated into field fence system NW->NE; berm (Wth 0.75m) along inner face of bank NE->NW. Causewayed break in inner and outer bank to NNE; staggered. Causewayed entrance (Wth through inner bank 3.6m; through outer bank 4.2m) to SSW. Grass-covered interior slopes down to SW.
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
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.