Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Monavanshere, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Monavanshere
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1842)
- Coordinates
- 51.96666, -8.70031
- SMR number
- CO061-069001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam c. 80m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map; replaced by subrectangular field (c. 80m NNE-SSW; c. 70m ESE-WSW) on 1903 OS 6-inch map. Levelled; no visible surface trace; surrounding field fences removed. According to Hartnett (1939, 206), original rampart traceable outside of subrectangular field fences showed that fort was 'oval in plan, 300 feet N-S and 280 feet E-W'. Possible souterrain (CO061-069002-) in interior.
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.