Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Doire An Tóchair, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Doire An Tóchair
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1938)
- Coordinates
- 51.89329, -9.09983
- SMR number
- CO070-055----
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, atop knoll, on S-facing slope overlooking Toon River valley. Circular raised area (26m N-S; 23m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.4m; ext. H 1.85m), with external fosse (D 0.45m). Cattle breaks in bank to E and NW. Site partially overgrown with furze bushes. No visible surface trace of linear hachured bank (L c. 40m) tangential to NW side of enclosure and L-shaped field boundary to NE of enclosure depicted on 1904 and 1938 OS 6-inch maps.
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
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.