Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Doire An Chuillinn, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Doire An Chuillinn
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1940)
- Coordinates
- 51.92194, -9.22362
- SMR number
- CO069-001----
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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 NNE-facing slope. Roughly circular area (30m E-W; 26m N-S) defined by earthen bank (H 1.5m) NNE->NW; scarp elsewhere. Bank planted with deciduous trees. Entrance (Wth 3m) to E. Interior slopes down gently to N; raised on N side to compensate for hillslope; remains of circular hut site (diam. 10m) in N half; souterrain (CO069-057----) in NW 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
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.