Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Hoddersfield, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Hoddersfield
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.80052, -8.31023
- SMR number
- CO099-018----
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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 tillage, on N-facing slope. Slightly raised, semicircular area N->S (diam. 32m N-S) delimited on W side by N-S field boundary. No visible surface trace of enclosure to W side of field boundary. May be enclosure mentioned by O'Leary (1918-9, 83), a 'small circular lios within the demesne of Hossersfield House'; not depicted on OS 6-inch map.
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
- Slab-lined burialunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Weir - fishunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.