Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cornhill, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cornhill
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1934)
- Coordinates
- 52.17307, -8.31188
- SMR number
- CO027-098----
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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, atop hillock. Roughly circular area (51m E-W; 47m N-S) enclosed by earth and stone bank (int. H 1.2m; ext. H 0.9m); intervening fosse (D 0.5m); outer stone bank (H 0.5m) SW->S. Inner bank incorporated into field fence system S->SW. Both banks breached in several places; possible entrance (Wth c. 3.5m) to E. Interior nearly level, slightly lower to N; fosse-like feature inside and concentric to inner bank, varying in width and depth, appears to be quarry. This may be 'Dun Tulcha Aird', residence of Finan, King of Fermoy, which according to Power (1932, 22) is 'represented, approximately at any rate, by the present Cornhill'.
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
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Battlefieldunder 1 mi
- Bridgeunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.