Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Rathcoola East, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathcoola East
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated (1939)
- Coordinates
- 52.01433, -8.70877
- SMR number
- CO050-033----
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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. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 35m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map; N half survives incorporated into field fence system on 1904 and 1939 OS 6-inch maps. Levelled; no visible surface trace. According to Hartnett (1939, 207) 'semi-circular fence forms the northern boundary, and the track of the old rampart can be traced to the south....is known as a "lios". Diameter - 120 feet.'
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
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.