Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Ardgroom Outward, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ardgroom Outward
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.73296, -9.87261
- SMR number
- CO102-005001-
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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
On N-facing slope at foot of Tooreennamna Mountain, commanding view over Ardgroom Harbour. Roughly circular area (25m N-S; 21m E-W) enclosed by ruined wall of large boulders; original facing survives to SE (H 1m; Wth 3.6m). Gap (Wth 1.5m) to E revetted by recumbent slab on each side. (O'Brien 1970, 21).
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). 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
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.