Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Gortageen, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gortageen
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1842)
- Coordinates
- 52.09413, -9.04192
- SMR number
- CO039-019----
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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 level pasture. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 25m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map. Levelled; no visible surface trace. May be levelled single-ramparted fort (diam. c. 26yd) recorded by Bowman (1934, 304) on P. Sugrue's land; described by Broker (1937, 52) as in 'Lios Field' on Pat Sugrue's land but levelled in 1905 by Jer. O'Callaghan.
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
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Country houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.