Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Lackendarragh, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lackendarragh
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1938)
- Coordinates
- 52.09939, -8.76928
- SMR number
- CO041-033001-
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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 area (38m N-S) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.8m; ext. H 0.6m) NW->SSW, with external fosse (D 0.4m) to SE; scarp (H 2.7m) elsewhere. To N, stream flows in deep external drain at base of bank. Field boundary (H c. 1.3m) skirts enclosure to E and S, may incorporate remains of second bank; hachured as bank on 1842 and 1904 OS 6-inch maps. Interior raised to W to compensate for hillslope. May be double-ramparted fort (diam. 37yd) recorded by Bowman (1934, 547-8) in P. Sheehan's with one-third of outer circuit levelled (ibid.). Souterrain (CO041-03302-) in interior.
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
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.