Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Loughane Beg, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Loughane Beg
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1904)
- Coordinates
- 51.60500, -10.02666
- SMR number
- CO127-027----
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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 level ground. Circular area (35.5m N-S; 33m E-W) enclosed by earth and stone bank (H 1.1m); external, waterlogged fosse (D 0.6m). Stone wall atop bank W->NW. Cultivation ridges cross interior on NE-SW axis; circular hut site (diam. 5m) (CO127-027001-) in SE quadrant.
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
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Barrow - embanked barrowunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.