Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Mullaghroe North, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mullaghroe North
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1938)
- Coordinates
- 52.12012, -9.12972
- SMR number
- CO029-074----
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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 SW-facing slope. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 45m) on 1842, 1904 and 1938 OS 6-inch maps; external fosse hachured S->NW and NE->SE on 1938 OS 6-inch map. Levelled in 1966 (UCC); no visible surface trace of site. According to local information, 'two rings' surrounded fort. Circular enclosure visible as soilmark of bank with possible entrance to N and remains of second inner bank to E (GSIAP, W400). Recorded by Bowman (1934, 267) as double-ramparted fort (diam. c. 35yd) on D. O' Leary's land with half the circuit of the inner rampart levelled, remaining portion c. 3ft H; intervening fosse (Wth 36ft); outer rampart 6-8ft H and outer fosse 4ft D; entrance to S. Also recorded by Broker (1937, 53) as 'Lios na Duinne'. Possible souterrain (13423, Part 2) on N side of 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
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.