Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Slieveowen, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Slieveowen
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1904)
- Coordinates
- 51.80258, -9.00189
- SMR number
- CO094-024001-
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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, atop natural rise. Circular raised area (58.2m E-W; 56.6m N-S) enclosed by two earthen banks with deep intervening fosse SW->SE; scarp on line of inner bank to S. Inner bank (max. int. H 1.9m) highest on N side and decreasing in height around to the W and E. Fosse waterlogged to E. Outer bank (H 1.2m) lowest on E side where it varies between 0.4m and 1m in height. Breaks in inner bank to N and SE. Interior level; raised area inside SE bank; possible souterrain (9112) to N of 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
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.