Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Moneen (fermoy By.), County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Moneen (fermoy By.)
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1934)
- Coordinates
- 52.17664, -8.37069
- SMR number
- CO027-070----
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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 rolling pasture. Depicted on 1934 OS 6-inch map as arc of hachures forming scarp SW->NE, which extends out from kink in field boundary to S. Roughly circular area (30m N-S; 24m E-W) defined by low rise to E which runs into field boundary ESE->SW; scarp (H 0.3m) elsewhere. Field boundary which incorporates bank is stone faced and overgrown. Multiple cist cairn (CO027-069---) c. 50m to W.
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
- Cairn - burial cairnunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Burialunder 1 mi
- Urn burialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.