Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Shronagreehy, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Shronagreehy
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1902)
- Coordinates
- 51.77714, -9.36229
- SMR number
- CO092-020----
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 N-facing slope. Roughly circular area (22.5m N-S; 24.5m E-W) enclosed by ruined stone wall. Original outer facing visible to SW and W: large regular blocks with core of smaller stones. Some recent rebuilding on general line of inner facing of earlier wall now reduced to foundation level. Entrance to E (Wth 2m) blocked by wall. Cultivation ridges cross interior on N-S axis.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). 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
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.