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
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.09695, -8.77085
- SMR number
- CO041-035----
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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 tillage, on W-facing slope. Circular enclosure visible as cropmark of bank in aerial photograph (GSIAP, W387), except where respected by field boundary to S. Arc formed by light-coloured band of soil visible to W and N; field boundary to S appears to incorporate remains of bank (int. H 1.4m; ext. H 1.6). Roadway skirts bank to S. May be levelled single-ramparted ringfort (diam. c. 31yd) recorded by Bowman (1934, 548) on Denis O'Connell's land.
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.