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
- 52.14582, -8.87156
- SMR number
- CO031-019----
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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 tillage. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 50m) on 1842, 1904 and 1938 OS 6-inch maps; hachured outer bank, shown to E on 1842 OS 6-inch map, forms part of field fence system on later maps. Levelled; outer bank and external fosse survives to E incorporated into field boundary system. Upstanding univallate circular enclosure visible in aerial photograph taken 03-07-1975 (GSIAP, W406). Recorded by Bowman (1934, 212) as double-ramparted fort (diam. c. 45yd) on Mrs. O'Callaghan's land; half of outer rampart levelled, remainder c. 5ft H; intervening fosse c. 18 ft wide; inner rampart c. 13ft H from base of fosse; interior raised and saucer-shaped.
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
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