Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Lissanoohig, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lissanoohig
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cathairog (1944)
- Coordinates
- 51.56534, -9.31147
- SMR number
- CO141-017001-
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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
On natural knoll, in pasture. Circular raised area (26.5m N-S; 26.8m E-W) enclosed by two dump-constructed stone banks with intervening fosse. Inner bank (int. H 0.3m) badly eroded. Outer bank (H 1.45m) at lower level than inner bank. Stone slabs in fosse and atop outer bank to E. Inside inner bank to N a depression, which appears to be quarried, may be feature marked 'poulnataloon' on OS 6-inch map (1944). Interior level; truncated to SW by field fence running NW-SE. Possible souterrain (CO141-017002-) in SW 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
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.