Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Garraun North, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Garraun North
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1938)
- Coordinates
- 52.00065, -8.65669
- SMR number
- CO051-054----
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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. Circular area (59.3m N-S; 56.4m E-W) defined by earthen bank (max. int. H 0.9m; ext. H 1.6m) with external fosse (D 1.2m). Outer bank depicted on 1904 OS 6-inch map visible to NE and SW->W (H 1m); naccessible due to heavy overgrowth elsewhere. Break in bank (Wth 8.4m) to ENE used by farm machinery to gain access to interior. Interior saucer-shaped; SW quadrant used to store silage. Modern drains outside outer bank to NE and W.
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
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 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.