Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Tuocusheen, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tuocusheen
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.80699, -8.72072
- SMR number
- CO096-029----
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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 small triangular field of rough grazing land. Circular area (27.9m E-W; 27.8m N-S) enclosed by low earthen bank (H 0.45m) to N and E; slight rise elsewhere. External fosse survives as shallow depression at base of bank to W and NE. Bank incorporated into field fence system to N.
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.