Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Courtbrack, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Courtbrack
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated (1937)
- Coordinates
- 51.97452, -8.64536
- SMR number
- CO062-024----
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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. 35m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map; survives NNW->S incorporated into field fence system on 1904 and 1937 OS 6-inch map; levelled section to W indicated by broken line on 1937 OS 6-inch map. According to Hartnett (1939, 282), 'rampart to the west is levelled, and a modern fence surrounds the fort to the north and east'. Levelled; no visible surface trace. In 2008 remains of this ringfort, in the form of a raised interior (H c. 1.5m), were identified during an archaeological assessment (Shine 2008).
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
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.