Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Na Huláin Thoir, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Na Huláin Thoir
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1940)
- Coordinates
- 51.94909, -9.10578
- SMR number
- CO058-021----
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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 break in SW-facing slope. Circular, slightly raised area (31.5m NE-SW;) defined by earthen bank (max. int. H 2m); external fosse (D 1.6m) SW->E, surviving as shallow depression E->SW. Bank stone-faced on inside to height of 1.1m NW->ESE; only low rise remains internally elsewhere; gap to S, heavily overgrown. Stream flows in short section of fosse to W. Low counterscarp bank survives to W, as depicted on 1940 OS 6-inch map; 1903 OS 6-inch map shows field fence/bank enclosing fosse WSW->E. Interior slopes gently down to S; completely covered in bracken.
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
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Cairn - ring-cairnunder 1 mi
- Kiln - corn-dryingunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.