Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Codrum, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Codrum
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Entrenchment (Site of) (1938)
- Coordinates
- 51.90767, -8.98490
- SMR number
- CO070-050001-
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 S-facing slope. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map; indicated by broken line enclosing circular area on 1904 and 1938 OS 6-inch map. On the OS 25-inch OS map is is name ‘Entrenchment (Site of)'. Levelled; bank survives as low rise (max. H 0.5m) enclosing a circular area (28.7m N-S; 26.9m E-W). Interior surface is uneven; there is a possible souterrain (CO070-050002-) in the S half: Lewis (1837, ii, 329)) mentions ‘a spacious subterranean cavern’ within ‘the remains of an encampment’. Archaeological monitoring taking place immediately W of the site did not uncover any material related to the monument (Dowd 2000).
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; 13 November 2025
References
Lewis, S. 1837 A topographical dictionary of Ireland, 2 vols. London. Lewis and Co.
Dowd M. 2000. Archaeological monitoring report, Codrum, Macroom, Co. Cork. Unpublished report. Eachtra.
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.