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Ringfort - rath

Dromrastill,Woodpark, County Cork, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Dromrastill, Woodpark, County Cork, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Dromrastill,Woodpark
County
Cork
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1936)
Coordinates
52.13817, -8.77106
SMR number
CO032-024----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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 tillage, atop hill. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure on 1842 and 1905 OS 6-inch maps; as hachured circular bivallate enclosure on 1936 OS 6-inch map. Circular area (internal diam. c. 29m N-S), cut off-centre to E by townland boundary running NNW-SSE. At W side of fence overgrown interior (internal dims. 11m E-W) defined by two earthen banks with intervening fosse and external fosse. Inner bank (ext. H 1.9m) heavily overgrown with internal face sloping gently down towards interior; intervening fosse (D 0.3m) waterlogged to W; outer bank (ext. H 1.4m) has sharper profile than inner bank; shallow external fosse survives to W; interior higher than outside field level. Enclosure levelled at E side of fence; traces of scarp visible to NE and E. Two levelled banks and intervening fosse visible NNW->S as cropmark in aerial photograph (GSIAP, W409), with remainder of enclosure S->NNW, on W side of townland boundary, overgrown. Possible souterrain (CO032-216---) 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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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