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Ringfort - cashel

Skahanagh More (Bantry By.) , County Cork, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, Skahanagh More, County Cork, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Skahanagh More (Bantry By.)
County
Cork
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Indicated (1902)
Coordinates
51.71484, -9.38865
SMR number
CO105-031----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Circular area (diam. 23.7m NNE-SSW) enclosed by stone bank (H 1.6m). Break in bank to S, heavily overgrown. Interior covered in ferns, large sandstone slab lying in N half. Myler (1998, 22) notes 'a possible entrance feature to the east'. Myler (1998, 22) also notes the following information: 'Local folklore has it that a giant was buried here and that there are carvings on the stones western facing side. This carved symbol resembling a three fingered hand recurs in this area. In a small field some 2 yards north of the fort are two small stones 1ft. high and a cairn to the east of them'. Myler (1998, 23) recorded a possible souterrain '100 yards to the west of the ringfort'.

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: 23 January 2013

References

Myler, D. 1998 An archaeological survey of the Mealagh Valley. Mealagh Valley Community Development Association.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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