Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Mashanaglass, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mashanaglass
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1938)
- Coordinates
- 51.88597, -8.92388
- SMR number
- CO071-092----
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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. Depicted as hachured oval enclosure (c. 30m E-W; c. 20m N-S) on 1842 OS 6-inch map, enclosed within small rectangular field, with bank E->W forming S corner of field; N quadrant hachured on 1904 and 1938 OS 6-inch maps, joining field fences extending NW and NE from corner of field to S. Field fences and enclosure levelled, low rise S->W marks line of levelled bank. Hartnett (1939, 102) recorded N quadrant remaining, cut off from rest of fort, which is levelled, by 'two earth and stone fences running N.W. and N.E.' with 'vague traces of the rampart outside these fences' especially along SW quadrant (Fig. XXVII:I).
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
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