Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Loumanagh North, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Loumanagh North
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated (1937)
- Coordinates
- 52.15239, -9.09086
- SMR number
- CO030-003----
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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 N-facing slope. Circular area (44m E-W; 43.5m N-S) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 1.5m; ext. H 1.4m) NNE->W; low grass-covered bank elsewhere (int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.65m). Bank incorporated into field fence system NNE->W and straightened or modified in parts. Slight depression, not measurable, inside and at base of bank SE->SSW. Entrance (Wth 2m) to N; cattle gap (Wth 1m) to SSE. Interior grass-covered; slopes gently down to N.
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.