Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Liscreagh, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Liscreagh
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1936)
- Coordinates
- 52.07268, -9.08307
- SMR number
- CO039-118----
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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 edge of sharp drop down to marshy ground. Roughly circular area (30m N-S; 30m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 2.1m) SW->E, with rough and jagged scarp (H 3m) elsewhere; second bank (max. H 2.2m), separated by intervening fosse, SW->N. Interior grass-covered; slopes down to SSE. According to Broker (1937, 49) '15 spades of double fence knocked by owner in 1910....the fort was really falling down the slope and he merely helped it'.
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
- 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.