Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Forest-Town, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Forest-Town
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1842)
- Coordinates
- 51.93137, -8.28111
- SMR number
- CO064-088----
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, on SSW-facing slope. Shown on 1842 OS 6-inch map as circular enclosure (diam. c. 20m). Levelled; no visible surface trace. According to Power (1918, 199-200) 'On the townland was a circular lios of rather small size; alas its ramparts have been levelled....Destruction of this particular lios is specially to be regretted, as the "fort" had a name - Lios Aimhréidh....'
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). 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
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Country houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.