Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Carrigcleena Beg, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrigcleena Beg
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1938)
- Coordinates
- 52.06380, -8.67980
- SMR number
- CO041-120----
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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)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
In pasture, on E-facing slope. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure on 1842 OS 6-inch map; W half indicated on 1904 OS 6-inch map; circular area defined by hachured scarp NNW->S and by solid line elsewhere on 1938 OS 6-inch map. Circular area (34m E-W; 30m N-S) defined by low rise NW->SSW; earthen bank (int. H 2.05m; ext. H 1.5m) incorporated into field boundary system SSW->NW. Bank heavily overgrown; stone facing on inner face similar to surrounding field fences. Interior grass-covered; W half level; E half slopes down to E. Fosse, NW->SSW, visible as cropmark in aerial photograph (GSIAP, W1). Probably ringfort recorded by Bowman (1934, 600) as single-ramparted (diam. c. 33yd; bank H 4 to 7ft) with 'half the circuit levelled' and named 'Lisin na Cairrge - Little fort of the Rock - so-called from being near a large rock'.
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.