Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Claragh More, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Claragh More
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1936)
- Coordinates
- 52.05752, -9.10071
- SMR number
- CO039-045----
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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 N-facing slope, on lower northern slopes of Claragh Mountain. Circular area (36m N-S; 36m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 2m; ext. H 1.5m) NE->WSW; scarp (H 2.8m) elsewhere with slight internal lip. External fosse survives as slight depression at base of bank to S and SW. Entrance (Wth 4m) to ENE; cattle gap to N. Interior slopes down to N.
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
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.