Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Garrylaurence, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Garrylaurence
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1936)
- Coordinates
- 52.00034, -8.12166
- SMR number
- CO054-113----
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 pasture on E-facing slope. Circular area (30.8m N-S; 30m E-W) enclosed by inner stone-built bank on earthen base (H 1.3m); shallow intervening fosse; outer bank (H 1.4m), very broad based, earthen faced with stone; traces of outer fosse. Inner bank unique to area, faced internally with small lumps of sandstone, externally with blocks larger than 0.9m x 1.2m. Gap in banks to E. Interior slopes down gently to E.
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
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 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.