Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Woodstock, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Woodstock
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1936)
- Coordinates
- 51.93680, -8.24685
- SMR number
- CO065-059001-
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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 SW-facing slope. Extensive views to NW and SSW. Raised circular area (32.6m E-W; 30.75m N-S) enclosed by steep-sided inner bank (max. int. H 1.55m; ext. H 4.05m); rock-cut intervening fosse with possible well to NE; berm (Wth 3.5m); outer bank (H 2.25m), inner face quarried into to E; shallow external fosse N->SSW, formerly deep but recently infilled with debris SSW->N. Interior split levelled, with E half c. 1.25m higher than W. At centre, depression and spoil heap indicated disturbance due to digging. According to local information O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, camped here in 1599.
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
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
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- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.