Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Russelhill, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Russelhill
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1904)
- Coordinates
- 51.81267, -8.69234
- SMR number
- CO096-032----
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, atop N end of sand ridge. Depicted as hachured subrectangular area (c. 35m N-S; c. 20m E-W) on 1842 OS 6-inch map; as raised oval area (c. 40m N-S; c. 30m E-W) incorporated into field fence system S->N on 1904 OS 6-inch map. Levelled; low undulations in area of site. According to Hartnett (1939, 267), fort was oval in plan (130ft x 100ft) raised 5 to 6ft above surrounding ground level to N, E and S, with boundary fence built on W edge.
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
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Boulder-burialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.