Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Derryleagh, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Derryleagh
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Lisnagol (1937)
- Coordinates
- 52.14860, -9.06938
- SMR number
- CO030-023----
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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. Oval raised area (40.5m N-S; 35.5m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 1.5m; ext. H 1.25m); external fosse (D 0.6m). Bank quarried away to ENE; inner face of bank slopes gently down towards centre of interior, giving saucer-shaped profile. Entrance (Wth 4m) to SE. Fosse quarried into NNE->E; shallow E->SSW; overgrown and survives best SSW->NNE. Slight linear depression crosses interior on NW-SE axis. Depression surrounded by spoil heaps exists inside SSW bank. Field boundary skirts enclosure S->N. Recorded by Bowman (1934, 515) as double-ramparted fort in E. Guerin's 'called Lios Na gColl - Fort of the Hazels', with about one-third of outer rampart still standing.
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.