Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Doonasleen East, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Doonasleen East
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Lissadoon (1938)
- Coordinates
- 52.14213, -9.13546
- SMR number
- CO029-014001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 E-facing slope, c. 200m W of Owentaraglin River. Circular raised area (47m E-W; 45m N-S) enclosed by inner earthen bank (int. H 2m; ext. H 3.3m); intervening fosse; outer earthen bank (H 1.5m) SE->SW. Inner bank planted with young coniferous trees to NW and S->SW; cattle gap to N and SW; causewayed entrance (Wth 4m) through both banks to SSE. Intervening fosse (D 1.6m; Wth 7m) overgrown to E and S; used as farm trackway to N and NW. Outer bank planted with coniferous trees SSE->SW; broken to WSW where trackway exits. Interior grass-covered; souterrain (CO029-01402-) at S side.
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
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Kiln - limeunder 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.