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Ringfort - rath

Mullaghroe North, County Cork, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Mullaghroe North, County Cork, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1883 · Ireland 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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