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
- 52.03181, -8.31546
- SMR number
- CO053-013----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 tillage, on N-facing slope. Shown as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 20m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map. Indicated as curve in field fence on 2nd and 3rd eds OS 6-inch maps. Levelled; no visible surface trace. According to Power (1923, 181) 'The O.M. records four lioses, of which three...still survive. Two of these...with ramparts 5 feet high. The third ...is of large size, and its rampart is 9 feet high. There were two further (unrecorded) lioses, of which no trace now remains'.
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.