Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Gortavehy East, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gortavehy East
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.04879, -9.13835
- SMR number
- CO038-144----
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 E-facing slope overlooking Owennagloor River to E. According to local information, site of ringfort levelled c. 1910. New bungalow built to N of it; no visible surface trace. One of two levelled forts mentioned by Broker (1937, 49) on land of James Sullivan - 'First, 30 feet diam, single fence, in Pairc na Sceiche; levelled 1905. Second, 1/2 acre, in field called "Square"; levelled 1875; no trace now'. Second fort (8712) lies in adjoining field to SW.
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
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.