Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Coolgarriff, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Coolgarriff
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1938)
- Coordinates
- 51.93968, -8.85351
- SMR number
- CO060-151001-
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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. Levelled; depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 45m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map, with stream crossing S half of interior in E-W direction and possible souterrain (CO060-151002-) inside N bank. Hartnett (1939, 98) describes interior (overall diameter 200ft) enclosed by earthen bank 'with a good proportion of large stone' and 'shallow outer fosse'; 'open drain' crosses sites 'at the S.E.'; S of this, 'rampart erased but is still traceable'. In interior remains of bank form arc which separates NE quadrant from remainder of interior (ibid.). Possible standing stone (CO060-151003-) in NE quadrant.
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
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Anomalous stone groupunder 1 mi
- Anomalous stone groupunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.