Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Lissacapia, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lissacapia
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Lissacapia (1936)
- Coordinates
- 52.07170, -8.96925
- SMR number
- CO039-113001-
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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 W-facing slope. Roughly circular, slightly raised area (42mE-W; 39m N-S) enclosed by substantial earthen bank (int. H 2.6m; ext. H 3.7m), with external fosse (D 1.3m); low counterscarp bank (max. H 1.4m) E->W, replaced by field fence W->E. Gaps (Wth c. 2m) in bank to E (with poorly defined causeway), SSE and SW. Cultivation ridges cross interior on NW-SE axis; in SE quadrant two grass-covered ridges (H 0.6m; L 12m), 4m apart, extend from base of bank towards centre; irregularly-shaped grass-covered rise inside W bank. Standing stone (6813) inside bank to NE.
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
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 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.