Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Rathdrum, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathdrum
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1936)
- Coordinates
- 52.03939, -8.14761
- SMR number
- CO054-053----
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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 N-facing slope, below a steep incline. Good view WSW->ESE. Centre of site levelled; remnants of earthen banks visible to E and W incorporated into field fence system. Circular area (37.5m E-W) defined SSW->NW by inner bank (H 1m); intervening fosse; outer bank (H 0.8m); outer fosse (D 0.6m): ENE->SE by single curving bank (H 1m): to S by inward facing low scarp where interior was cut into hillslope.
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.