Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Gortnacrusha South, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gortnacrusha South
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.67451, -8.61451
- SMR number
- CO124-063----
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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, on S-facing slope. According to local tradition, site of ringfort; levelled c. 1979. Curve (W->NNE) in field fence system depicted on 1902 OS 6-inch map. Slightly raised circular area (diam. c. 42m N-S) survives. Circular enclosure (CO124-065----) from aerial photograph immediately to SW. Inadvertently included in the Archaeological Inventory of Co. Cork, Vol. 1 (West Cork), No. 1989.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). 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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 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.