Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Beenreagh, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Beenreagh
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.06223, -8.93279
- SMR number
- CO040-129----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 NE-facing slope, overlookig Crinnaloo River. Roughlycircular area (32m N-S; 28.5m E-W) enclosed by scarp (H 0.85m) N->SE; earthen bank (int. H 1.45m) SE->W with external fosse (D 1.25m). Bankstone-faced in parts. Field boundary running NE-SW truncates enclosure on NW side. Limekiln marked on 1842 OS 6-inch map would have been located approximately at E side of enclosure; no visible surface trace. Slight lipvisible at base of bank due to ploughing of interior. Locally known as fort.
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
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.