Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
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
- 51.94673, -9.18659
- SMR number
- CO058-005----
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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 S-facing slope. Circular area (22m N-S; 24m E-W) enclosed by stone wall (H 1.4m; T 2m); collapsed externally NE->SW and NW->N; entrance (Wth 2m) to SE. Rectangular chamber (1.7m x 1.05m; H 0.9m) within wall to E; access through lintelled ope (H 0.4m; Wth 0.4m) on inner wall face. Interior level; raised on S side to compensate for hillslope; remains of cultivation ridges run N-S.
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
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - belvedereunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.