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 (1937)
- Coordinates
- 52.14402, -9.08988
- SMR number
- CO030-009----
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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 on 1842, 1904 and 1937 OS 6-inch maps. Levelled; slightly oval area (35m E-W; 29m N-S) defined by levelled bank visible as soilmark in reseeded field. Interior slightly raised; slopes gently down to S. Probably site referred to by Bowman (1934, 519) as oval-shaped ringfort (41yd by 34yd) on J. O'Connell's land; fosse infilled, bank c. 8ft H outside and c. 5ft H inside. Aerial photograph (CASAP) dated 28-06-1984 shows site upstanding and bank planted with trees.
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
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.