Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Claraghatlea North, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Claraghatlea North
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1936)
- Coordinates
- 52.06930, -9.09735
- SMR number
- CO039-038----
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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)
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The National Monuments Service's description
In pasture, on NW-facing slope down to nearby stretch of low flat marshy land. Roughly circular area (24m N-S; 20m E-W) enclosed by low, worn, earthen bank (int. H 0.8m; ext. H 0.4m), except to NW where scarp (H 1.2m) exists. Interior grass-covered; slight depression at centre. Ringfort (CO039-039---) lies c. 150m to SE.
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.