Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Clashanure, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clashanure
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1938)
- Coordinates
- 51.89048, -8.70326
- SMR number
- CO072-112002-
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
On grounds of Lee Valley golf course, on SW-facing slope. Most northerly of two conjoined ringforts (CO072-112001-). Circular raised area (32m N-S; 30m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.5m; ext. H 3.5m) WSW->NE with external fosse; slight scarp NE->S; to SW separated from interior of conjoined site (CO072-112001-) by low rise. Outer bank (H 1.4m) survives WSW->NNW. Fosse heavily overgrown and used as dump for stones NNW->NE. Interior slopes down to SE; planted with coniferous trees.
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.