Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Manning, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Manning
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1934)
- Coordinates
- 52.18482, -8.33105
- SMR number
- CO027-092----
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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
In scrub, atop hill. Roughly circular area (32m N-S; 31m E-W) enclosed ENE->NNE by earthen bank, surmounted in places by limestone rubble wall (int. H 0.88m; ext. H 2.1m) faced in parts with large slabs; scarp (H 3.6m) elsewhere, formed by steep rock face. Intervening fosse and outer earthen bank (H 0.3m) ESE->NNE. Causewayed entrance through wall (Wth 0.85m) to SSW. Exterior and parts of interior heavily overgrown. One of a group of five ringforts (CO027-088---; CO027-089---; CO027-093---; C027-094---) at W side of townland.
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
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.