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Ringfort - rath

Gortmolire, County Cork, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Gortmolire, 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
Gortmolire
County
Cork
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1936)
Coordinates
52.10932, -8.77061
SMR number
CO032-070----

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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 pasture, near top of hill. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 22m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map. Slightly to ESE, of position of site on 1842 OS 6-inch map, is kink in field fence, hachured (SE->SW) on 1936 OS 6-inch map. Site and field fence levelled with no visible surface trace surviving. Farm trackway now runs through site. Recorded by Bowman (1934, 580) as levelled single-ramparted fort (diam. c. 41yd) on T. Colman's land, where 'a small portion of the rampart remains to form a boundary fence'. According to local information, field boundary levelled c. 1974. Field known as 'Pairc a leasa' (ibid.).

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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