Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Gleann Daimh, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gleann Daimh
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1940)
- Coordinates
- 51.96424, -9.08894
- SMR number
- CO059-001001-
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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, atop knoll. Roughly circular, raised area (27.6m N-S; 21.6m E-W) defined by earthen bank (int. H 0.4m; ext. H 1m), topped by stone field boundary ESE->W; external fosse (D 0.4m). Approximately 13m beyond inner bank is second earthen bank (H 1m) SSW->N, with shallow external fosse (D 0.3m); scarp S->SSW; destroyed to E due to quarrying. Outer bank stone-faced and incorporated into field fence system SSW->W. Interior slopes gently down to S; souterrain (8889) in N quadrant; cultivation ridges, running N-S, cross interior and area to W between inner and outer bank.
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
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Kiln - corn-dryingunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.