Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Claragh Beg, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Claragh Beg
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.05534, -9.10856
- SMR number
- CO038-091----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 pasture, on NW-facing slope. Curve in field fence E->SW on 1842, 1904 and 1938 OS 6-inch maps. According to landowner, ringfort destroyed during gravel quarrying in 1950s; quarry now disused. One of two levelled ringforts mentioned by Broker (1937, 45) on lands of Tim Corkery.
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
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Kiln - limeunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.