Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Shandangan East, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Shandangan East
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.87639, -8.83963
- SMR number
- CO071-116----
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, at junction of three fields and c. 300m to ENE of Old Fort house. Circular area (diam c. 56.5m) defined by low rise with shallow external depression. Three field boundaries meet at centre of interior. According to Hartnett (1939, 146), ringfort levelled c. 1910.
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
- Stone circle - five-stoneunder 1 mi
- Stone circle - five-stoneunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.