Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Rathruane More, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathruane More
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1902)
- Coordinates
- 51.57193, -9.48681
- SMR number
- CO140-006001-
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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 crest of hill. Roughly circular area (35.5m N-S; 38.5m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (H 2.5m); external fosse (D 1.5m); second bank E->SE, may not be original. Entrance to SSE (Wth 2.8m), with causeway. Bank stone faced on inside (H 1.30m) and at entrance; line of embedded stones atop outer edge of bank W->NNW. Cultivation ridges cross interior on NNW-SSE axis; possible souterrain (CO140-006002-) in interior.
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
- Boulder-burialunder 1 mi
- Rock artunder 1 mi
- Mill - fullingunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.