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Ringfort - rath

Muingyroogeen, County Cork, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Muingyroogeen, County Cork, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Muingyroogeen
County
Cork
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
Lisheennamalaboge (1937)
Coordinates
52.07711, -8.91003
SMR number
CO040-061001-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (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 NW-facing slope. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure on 1842 OS 6-inch map; hachured as bivallate circular enclosure (diam. c. 25m), truncated by roadway to NE and by field boundary to SE on 1904 and 1937 OS 6-inch maps. Enclosure inaccessible due to heavy overgrowth of gorse and briars. Two earthen banks with intervening fosse visible through overgrowth, ESE->W; trench dug along line of intervening fosse as shown on 1937 OS 6-inch map. Interior overgrown, appears level; souterrain (CO040-06102-) in N half. Recorded by Bowman (1934, 255) as double ramparted fort called 'Lisin na Mealbhog' on T. O'Connor's land; diam. 35yd with inner rampart c. 7ft H; intervening fosse c. 15ft wide; outer rampart c. 5ft H. Possible ringbarrow (CO040-139---) immediately outside ringfort to W.

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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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