Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cashel More, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cashel More
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1903)
- Coordinates
- 51.70894, -8.83239
- SMR number
- CO109-060----
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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 pasture, below hilltop on N-facing slope. Circular area (42m N-S; 42m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (H 1.3m), stone faced in parts. Low rise (H 0.5m), concentric with and 10m inside bank, encloses area with diam. of 20m. Possible hut site atop inner enclosure to NE (diam. 2.4m); depression inside enclosure to SW may be result of quarrying.
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
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Standing stone (present location)under 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.