Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Glanturkin, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glanturkin
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated (1935)
- Coordinates
- 51.80658, -8.19701
- SMR number
- CO100-009001-
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 tillage, on ESE-facing slope. Roughly circular area (74m NW-SE; 73mNE-SW) enclosed by earthen bank (H 1.3m) NNE->WNW; stone faced in parts. Roadway delimits interior to NW; stone faced field fence to N. Bank heavily overgrown SSE->WNW. Interior raised on E side to compensate for hillslope; planted with beet. One of 'five lioses' (CO100-008---; CO100-01001-;CO100-050---; CO100-051---) in townland referred to by Power (1940, 100).
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
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- House - vernacular houseunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - vernacular houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.