Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
An Ráth Thoir, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- An Ráth Thoir
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1940)
- Coordinates
- 51.90979, -9.16762
- SMR number
- CO069-011----
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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, at break in NE-facing slope. Circular area (33m E-W; 31m N-S) defined by earthen bank (int. H 1.5m; ext. H 1.1m) E->NW with external fosse (D 0.3m); scarp (H 2.6m) elsewhere. Breaks in bank to SSW (Wth 2m) and SW. Interior raised on NE side to compensate for hillslope; crossed by remains of cultivation ridges on NE-SW axis.
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
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Stone circle - five-stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.