Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Rooves More, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rooves More
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1938)
- Coordinates
- 51.88328, -8.78850
- SMR number
- CO072-070001-
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. Roughly circular area (diam. 36.5m) defined by two earthen banks (H 1m) with deep intervening fosse. Banks partially overgrown with furze bushes; causewayed entrance to SW. Souterrain (CO072-070002-) in interior. Four stones forming a line outside enclosure to NE may be remains of field boundary marked on 1904 OS 6-inch map (Hartnett 1939, Fig. XXIX, 1).
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
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ogham stoneunder 1 mi
- Ogham stoneunder 1 mi
- Ogham stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.