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Ringfort - rath

Rougham, County Cork, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Rougham, County Cork, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1865 · Ireland, (South) Sheet. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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