Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Loumanagh South, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Loumanagh South
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1842)
- Coordinates
- 52.14432, -9.09411
- SMR number
- CO030-006----
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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. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 20m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map, at junction of three fields. Levelled; roughly circular area (25m N-S; 24m E-W) defined by scarp (H 0.43m) NNE->W; earthen field boundary (int. H 1.4m; ext. H 1.8m) NW->NNE, probably incorporating remains of bank. Interior raised and slopes down gently to S. Field boundary which extended W from site has been levelled.
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
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 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.