Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Barrinclay, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Barrinclay
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1935)
- Coordinates
- 52.08033, -8.64786
- SMR number
- CO042-034----
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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 N-facing slope. Depicted on 1842, 1904 and 1935 OS 6-inch maps ashachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 35m) with roadway running approx. N-S crossing E half of interior. Arc, formed by earthen bank (int. H 2.2m) with shallow external fosse (Wth 2m), survives on E side of roadway in roadside boundary. Bank heavily overgrown; some stone facing visible on inner face. Crop growing in field to W of roadway; no visible surface trace of levelled bank.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). 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
- House - vernacular houseunder 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.