Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
An Droim Réidh, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- An Droim Réidh
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated (1938)
- Coordinates
- 51.88697, -9.04253
- SMR number
- CO070-107001-
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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
Shown as irregular area enclosed by hachured arc SE->SW with field fences to W, N and E on 1842 OS 6-inch map; subcircular field on 1904 and 1938 OS 6-inch maps. In pasture, on S-facing slope. Subcircular area (53m E-W; 46m N-S) enclosed by roughly coursed stone wall (H 2m) with rubble core; best preserved SE->SW. Standing stone (6701) and overgrown area of stones inside wall to E. Interior under cultivation; raised on S side to compensate for hillslope.
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
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 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.