Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Tooreen (duhallow By.), County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tooreen (duhallow By.)
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1937)
- Coordinates
- 52.09527, -8.90095
- SMR number
- CO040-014----
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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 coniferous plantation, atop hill. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 38m) on 1842, 1904 and 1937 OS 6-inch maps. According to local information, fort ploughed out c. 1970 and area planted; no visible surface trace. Recorded by Bowman (1934, 237) as single-ramparted fort (diam. c. 29m) with rampart (H c. 0.6m) of dry stone construction 'having an over-layer of earth.' ; some of rampart levelled and stones used in construction of trigonometrical station. Mound (c. 6.4m x c. 4.5m; H c. 0.6m) at S side of enclosure (ibid.).
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.