Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Liskillea, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Liskillea
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1940)
- Coordinates
- 51.83206, -8.55595
- SMR number
- CO085-088----
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, on S-facing slope. Roughly circular, slightly raised area (c. 36m N-S; c. 30m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.75m) E->NNW; scarp to NE; shallow external fosse NW->NNE with field boundary to outside. Bank eroded in parts and planted with coniferous trees; shed built outside bank to E; stone-faced externally E->SW; incorporated into field fence system SW->NE. Interior planted; long trench running E-W with material dumped on N side noted in SE quadrant.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). 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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.