Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Dromskarragh More, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dromskarragh More
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1938)
- Coordinates
- 52.15696, -9.13510
- SMR number
- CO029-018----
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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 S-facing slope, on edge of sharp fall down to stream bed. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (c. 45m N-S) on 1842, 1904 and 1938 OS 6-inch maps; S bank reduced to scarp on 1938 OS 6-inch map. Roughly circular area (48m E-W; 42.5m N-S) defined by earthen bank (int. H 1.2m; ext. H 1m) W->E; levelled elsewhere, visible as low rise. Bank overgrown with briars and gorse. Interior under pasture.
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
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Kiln - limeunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.