Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Gurteenbeha, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gurteenbeha
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated (1938)
- Coordinates
- 52.14557, -8.85155
- SMR number
- CO031-021002-
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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, c. 600m to N of River Blackwater. Circular area (c. 30m NE-SW) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1.75m). Bank topped by high wire fence; shed built on bank to N where lime kiln is depicted on 1842 OS 6-inch map. Interior surface uneven; used as pound for dogs. Recorded by Bowman (1934, 68) as single-ramparted fort (diam. 40yd; bank c. 4ft H) on W. O'Keeffe's land, with fosse c. 7ft wide and c. 4ft deep in parts; possible souterrain (CO031-02103-) in interior.
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
- House - vernacular houseunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.