Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Lisnashearshane, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lisnashearshane
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1937)
- Coordinates
- 52.10426, -9.08417
- SMR number
- CO030-116001-
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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 level pasture. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 38m) on 1842, 1904 and 1937 OS 6-inch maps; second bank hachured E->WSW on 1904 and 1937 OS 6-inch maps. No visible surface trace of site; according to local information inner bank and remaining portion of outer bank, which were low and heavily eroded by cattle, were levelled c. 1968. Recorded by Bowman (1934, 291) as double-ramparted fort on Leonard Leader's; about one-sixth of outer rampart levelled, remainder c. 7ft H; intervening fosse (Wth 18ft); inner rampart c. 12ft H from base of fosse. Possible souterrain (CO030-11602-) in intervening fosse.
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
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 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.