Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Glantane, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glantane
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1938)
- Coordinates
- 52.10011, -8.75981
- SMR number
- CO041-046----
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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)
- 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
In pasture, at bend of stream and above steep-sided glen. Circular area (35m NE-SW; 32.5m NNW-SSE) enclosed by two earthen banks NE->SSW (inner bank: int. H 0.4m; middle bank: int. H 1.2m to base of fosse) with intervening fosse; three earthen banks SSW->NE (outer bank: H 0.9m) with intervening fosses. Banks WSW->NE terraced down steep slope into glen, with low inner heights. Middle bank incorporated into boundary system ESE->WSW; banks broken through to WSW by field boundary. Interior slopes down to NW.
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
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.