Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Euglaune, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Euglaune
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1938)
- Coordinates
- 52.10965, -9.13141
- SMR number
- CO029-072----
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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, near top of S-facing slope. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 35m) on 1842, 1904 and 1938 OS 6-inch maps; limekiln marked on E bank on 1842 OS 6-inch map; external fosse hachured S->N on 1904 and 1938 OS 6-inch maps. No visible surface trace of site; according to local information, levelled early 1970s. Bank visible as cropmark in aerial photograph (GSIAP, W400). Recorded by Bowman (1934, 273) as single-ramparted fort (diam. c. 29yd) on M. Kearn's land, with bank c. 4ft and interior c. 1ft higher than outside field level. Possible souterrain (13371, Part 2) in interior.
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.