Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Doire Na Sagart, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Doire Na Sagart
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated (1940)
- Coordinates
- 51.95505, -9.20361
- SMR number
- CO058-003----
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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 mountain bogland, on NE-facing slope. Circular area (20.3m N-S; 19.5m E-W) defined by earth and stone bank (int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.5m), overgrown with gorse. External fosse cuts into rock outcrop to SW and SE (max. D 1.45m); shallower elsewhere. Second bank (H 0.4m) WSW->E; rock outcrop E->WSW. Entrance (Wth 2m) to ESE; stone-faced on S side. Interior slopes down gently to NE; drier than surrounding land.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). 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
- Stone rowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Standing stone1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.