TreeAlive
‹ Sites and Monuments Record, Ireland

Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland

Ringfort - rath

Caherbarnagh, County Cork, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Caherbarnagh, 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
Caherbarnagh
County
Cork
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1938)
Coordinates
52.04748, -9.18673
SMR number
CO038-037----

Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.

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)
  • 1865 · Ireland, (South) Sheet. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1883 · Ireland 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

Get directions ↗

This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗

The National Monuments Service's description

In pasture, on N-facing slope, overlooking Blackwater River valley. Circular area (35.5m E-W; 35m N-S) enclosed by substantial earthen bank (H 4.1m) with partially collapsed stone wall (H 1.6m) built against inner bank face; external fosse (D 0.6m); two outer banks with shallow intervening fosse. Inner face of stone wall remains intact in parts but mainly to SW where it is stepped. Second (int. H 1m) and third (H 0.9m) banks composed of earth and stone; replaced by two substantial dry-stone field boundaries SW->WNW. Causewayed entrance to N. Interior surface uneven; slopes down to N. Remains of oval hut (3.4m x 1.24m) survive against inner face of wall to W, dry-stone walled (max. H 0.98m); traces of inward corbelling at top of wall.

The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). 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.

Sites and Monuments Record data: National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Record text is reproduced unchanged. National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland · CC BY 4.0
All Ringfort - rath in Cork All County Cork records All Ireland Heritage registers Historical markers (US)National Register of Historic Places (US)
See your own family's places on a living map