Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Curragh (barretts By.), County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Curragh (barretts By.)
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1939)
- Coordinates
- 51.99740, -8.70189
- SMR number
- CO050-137----
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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 S-facing slope. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m) on 1842 and 1904 OS 6-inch maps; as circular area (diam. c. 30m) surrounded by fosse on 1939 OS 6-inch map. According to landowner, levelledc. 1978; interior defined by two banks. Survives as circular area enclosed by shallow depression with low rise on either side. Crop mark in aerial photograph (CASAP) also shows evidence of outer 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
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.