Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Dromaneen, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dromaneen
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1936)
- Coordinates
- 52.12490, -8.72192
- SMR number
- CO032-098----
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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 gently rolling pasture. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map; as hachured slightly oval enclosure on 1905 and 1936 OS 6-inch maps. Levelled; oval area (41.6m NNE-SSW; 29.7m ESE-WNW) defined by earthen bank (int. H 1.2m; ext. H 1.6m) NE->S; low undulation elsewhere. Slight depression to W outside line of levelled bank may be remains of fosse. Surviving bank incorporated into field fence system; rubble and tree roots dumped on surface. Recorded by Bowman (1934, 588) as single-ramparted fort (diam. c. 31yd; bank H c. 6ft) in E. O'Keeffe's.
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Bawnunder 1 mi
- House - fortified houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.