Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Rougham, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rougham
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.76552, -9.63362
- SMR number
- CO090-015001-
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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 an overgrown flat-topped hillock overlooking the Kerry River valley to the SE and surrounded by steep-sided mountains elsewhere. A semicircular area (diam. c. 28m SE-NW) enclosed by intermittent traces of an earthen bank (Wth 2m; int. H 0.15m; ext. H 2.6m to the base of the fosse) SE-NW and by an external overgrown fosse (Wth 2.5m; ext. H c. 0.5m) SE-NW on top of which a more recent earth and stone field boundary has been erected. A linear roadside boundary cuts through the N arc of the rath and a N-S field boundary roughly bisects the interior. The enclosing element NW-SE is largely gone except for traces of the bank and fosse at ESE. A souterrain (CO090-015002-) is located within the rath.
The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009).
Date of upload: 22 December 2009
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Boulder-burialunder 1 mi
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.