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
- 52.06830, -9.09591
- SMR number
- CO039-039----
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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. Subcircular area (36m E-W; 29m N-S) defined by earthen bank (int. H 0.6m; ext. H 2.5m) E->N; scarp elsewhere. Shallow external fosse (D 0.3m) ESE->SSW. Causewayed entrance (Wth 3m) to SE. Remains of internal stone-facing at base of bank to NW. Interior raised, grass-covered and level. According to Broker (1937, 45), fort in Con Duggan's, '1/4 acre, double fence'. Second ringfort (CO039-038---) c. 150m to NW.
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.