Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Skarragh, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Skarragh
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1842)
- Coordinates
- 52.09819, -8.73999
- SMR number
- CO041-054001-
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 N-facing slope, overlooking Blackwater River valley. Depicted as hachured D-shaped enclosure (straight side c. 30m E-W; projecting c. 25m to S) on 1842 OS 6-inch map. Levelled; circular area (diam. 24m) defined by low rise all round except to N where field boundary exists. Land falls away steeply to N of site.
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
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.