Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Skahanagh North, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Skahanagh North
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated (1935)
- Coordinates
- 52.02345, -8.32751
- SMR number
- CO053-011----
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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 NW-facing slope; fine view SSE->NNE. Shown as small univallate enclosure (diam. c. 20m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map; bank (H 1.3m) with shallow traces of fosse remains to W and N; to E and S, destroyed, replaced by modern field fence. Possible souterrain (CO053-076---) 4m inside N bank; depressions also to SW and S.
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
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.