Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Shanacashel, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Shanacashel
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1904)
- Coordinates
- 51.80066, -9.03395
- SMR number
- CO094-011001-
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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 undulating pasture land, on E side of hillock. Roughly circular raised area (48m E-W; 44m N-S) enclosed by low earthen bank (int. H 0.25m; ext. H 2.5m); external fosse (D 0.8m) survives SW->NW. Top of bank mainly disturbed by remains of cultivation ridges, which cross interior on ENE-WSW axis; low field boundary built atop bank NW->N. Entrance (Wth 3.3m) to ESE. Fosse defined at each end by field boundaries and enclosed along outer edgeby low, partially overgrown stone wall. Interior level except for large area inside entrance which slopes down towards exterior; souterrain (8934) at centre.
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
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.