Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ré Na Ndoirí, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ré Na Ndoirí
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1940)
- Coordinates
- 51.90340, -9.15235
- SMR number
- CO069-028----
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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 rough pasture, below crest of ridge on N-facing slope. Roughly circular area (43m N-S; 42m E-W) defined by earthen bank (int. H 2m); external fosse (D 0.8m) ESE->N. Bank stone-faced internally. Entrance (Wth 3.6m) to ENE, approached by ramp. Approx. 11m inside bank is remains of levelled bank (H 0.25m) ESE->NNW, with damp external fosse (D 0.15m) SE->N; gap in inne rbank to ENE, opposite external entrance; interior slightly raised and crossed by remains of cultivation ridges on E-W 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
- Stone rowunder 1 mi
- Stone circle - five-stoneunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.