Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ardgroom Inward, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ardgroom Inward
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated (1901)
- Coordinates
- 51.75649, -9.88305
- SMR number
- CO102A001002-
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 rough grazing on steep S-facing slope. Circular area (28m N-S; 31m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 1m; ext. H 3.55m) E->W and by sharp rise (H 2.10m) W->E. Gap in bank to SW. Interior cut into hillslope on N side and slopes downhill to S. Used as burial ground (CO102A00101-).
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
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Fish palaceunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.