Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Dromcummer More, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dromcummer More
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1938)
- Coordinates
- 52.14621, -8.88349
- SMR number
- CO031-017----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Ireland 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
In pasture, near top of ridge on S-facing slope. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure on 1842, 1904 and 1938 OS 6-inch maps; shown as bivallate S->N on 1938 OS 6-inch map. Levelled; circular area (40m E-W; 35.5m N-S) defined by earthen bank SSW->W with external fosse; low rise and slight external depression elsewhere. Bank to SW heavily overgrown and incorporated into field fence system. Circular enclosure visible as cropmark of bank, intervening fosse and outer bank in aerial photograph (CASAP). Second bivallate ringfort (CO031-01602-) c. 80m to N. Recorded by Bowman (1934, 212) as double-ramparted fort (diam. 34yd; inner bank H c. 9ft; intervening fosse Wth c. 18ft; outer bank H c. 6ft) on J. Ahern's land with about half of inner rampart levelled; interior raised.
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
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Kiln - limeunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.