Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Rossnakilla, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rossnakilla
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated (1904)
- Coordinates
- 51.84226, -8.97520
- SMR number
- CO082-059----
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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, on S-facing slope. Roughly circular area (28m E-W; 26m N-S) defined by low earthen bank (int. H 0.45m; ext. H 0.6m) to E and W; scarp (H 1m) to S; to N by sharp drop (H 1m) down to interior. Bank stone-faced externally. Interior cut into hillside to N and raised on S side to compensate for hillslope. One of two adjoining roughly circular fields on 1904 OS 6-inch map; locally known as ringfort.
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
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Stone rowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.