Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Johnstown (muskerry West By.), County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Johnstown (muskerry West By.)
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1904)
- Coordinates
- 51.80792, -9.08992
- SMR number
- CO094-001----
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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. Circular, slightly raised area (31.6m N-S; 31.6m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.3m; ext. H 1.25m). Bank heavily overgrown; used as dump for field clearance stones on N side; topped by stone wall to NE; blocked gap in bank to NNE. Interior raised on N side to compensate for hillslope; large stone in SW quadrant; truncated on S side by roadway running E-W. Shed built up against outer face of bank on E side.
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
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.