Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Lyradane, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lyradane
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1938)
- Coordinates
- 52.01990, -8.61795
- SMR number
- CO051-024----
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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, roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 35m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map; N half incorporated into field fence system and S half defined by scarp on 1904 and 1938 OS 6-inch maps. Visited prior to land reclamation in 1965 (OPW); survived as depicted on OS 6-inch map with scarp on S side measuring a maximum height of 6ft. Earthen, partially stone-faced field fence to N may incorporate part of original bank with low rise marking line of levelled bank to S (diam. c. 30m). Laneway skirts enclosure on N side.
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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- Kiln - limeunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.