Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Pluckanes North, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Pluckanes North
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1938)
- Coordinates
- 52.02078, -8.67769
- SMR number
- CO051-005----
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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 E-facing slope. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 20m) on 1842 and 1904 OS 6-inch maps; W half levelled and defined by broken line on 1937 OS 6-inch map. According to local information, levelled c. 1963. Circular area (18.4m N-S; 17.6m E-W) enclosed by low grass-covered rise (max. H 0.54m). Clearly visible as shadow site in aerial photograph (Dr D.D.C. Pochin Mould).
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
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.