Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Rathnaruogy, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathnaruogy
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1942)
- Coordinates
- 51.76613, -8.62968
- SMR number
- CO097-056----
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, on S-facing slope. Circular area (30.5m N-S; 30.15m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (H 1.8m) with external fosse (D 0.2m). Breaks in bank to E (Wth 2m) and SW (Wth 2.6m). Fosse filled with farm waste and field clearance material. Farm building beside fort to W. Field clearance material dumped in interior; ESB pole in centre.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). 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
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.