Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Castlenalact (Kinalmeaky By., Brinny Par.), County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Castlenalact (Kinalmeaky By., Brinny Par.)
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.78206, -8.74388
- SMR number
- CO096-114----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Ireland 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
In pasture, on a S-facing slope above the flood plain of the Sall River. Indicated as a circular 'Danes Fort' on a 1775 map (no. 32) by B. Scalé (private collection). The rath is not visible at ground level. A disused roughly E-W millrace lies immediately to the N of the rath.
The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009).
Date of upload: 22 December 2009
Nearby in the register
- Milling complexunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.