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Ringfort - cashel

Cooldurragha (carbery West (e.d.) By.), County Cork, Ireland

The record

Townland
Cooldurragha (carbery West (e.d.) By.)
County
Cork
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
Stookeen Fort (1900)
Coordinates
51.54752, -9.15482
SMR number
CO142-054001-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1841 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

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The National Monuments Service's description

In rough pasture, on break in SE-facing slope. Roughly circular area (19m N-S; 18m E-W) enclosed by ruined stone wall (H 0.65m; Wth 1.5m); overgrown; some large boulders visible to NE forming inner and outer facing with rubble core. Later wall built on line of ruined cashel wall to NW. Souterrain (CO142-054002-) 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

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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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