Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Condonstown North, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Condonstown North
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1935)
- Coordinates
- 52.03616, -8.34769
- SMR number
- CO053-007----
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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 NNE-facing slope; river Flesk flows c. 150m to N. Circular area (34m N-S; 31m E-W) defined by earthen bank (H 1.8m), best preserved to S; slope inclining into bank to N, W and S probably indicates fosse, most obvious between field fence and bank E->SW. Entrance (Wth 5.9m) to NNE, sloping to exterior; bank lower to either side. Low rise 5.3m inside bank NNE->ESE. Interior slopes gently to NE.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). 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
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Religious house - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.