Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Thornhill, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Thornhill
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated (1901)
- Coordinates
- 51.65663, -9.81064
- SMR number
- CO115-062----
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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, atop hillock. Land falls away most steeply on S side,down to sea. Roughly circular area (22.5m NE-SW; 19.3m NW-SE) enclosed by low, eroded earth and stone bank (H 0.9m) SSW-NE; large boulders on line of bank to NE, partially grass-covered. Field fence running c. NE-SW truncates site to S. Interior slightly higher than surrounding field to W and N; crossed by cultivation ridges on NE-SW axis.
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
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Mass-rockunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.