Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Acres (carbery West (e.d.) By., Dromdaleague Par.), County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Acres (carbery West (e.d.) By., Dromdaleague Par.)
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Caheruagongar (1902)
- Coordinates
- 51.68250, -9.21397
- SMR number
- CO120-006001-
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 pasture, atop knoll on SSW-facing slope of Miland Hill. Circular area (26.5m N-S; 25.8m E-W) enclosed by stone wall; inner face well preserved (H 0.6m); outer face survives to NE, ESE and WSW, giving original width of 2.75m. At centre overgrown subcircular mound (H 0.95m; 17m N-S; 11m E-W) with central depression (diam. 4m; D 0.5m); this feature marked as "cave" on both eds O.S. map; according to Nyhan (McCarthy 1977, 326) a souterrain was found here (CO120-006002-).
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
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.