Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Drommahane, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drommahane
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1938)
- Coordinates
- 52.09740, -8.68771
- SMR number
- CO041-075----
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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. Circular, slightly raised area (48m E-W; 46m N-S) enclosed by two earthen banks with intervening fosse and external fosse. Inner bank (int. H 1m) heavily overgrown, broken to N by cattle gap. Outer bank (H 1.5m) incorporated into field fence system SSE->NW; narrower in section and almost forming straight line between WSW and NW; ledge on inner face of bank S->W. External fosse (max. D 0.8m) survives SSE->WSW; as slight slope down to base of bank NNE->SSE. Entrance through both banks to S (Wth through inner bank 2m; through outer bank 4m). Circular, saucer-shaped raised area (diam. 25m) defined by scarp (H 0.75m) at centre of interior. Possible souterrain (CO041-158---) in W quadrant of 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
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.