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Rath
Cork, Republic of Ireland ยท Atlas IR3498
Location
- Atlas number
- IR3498 (3498)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Cork
- Historic county
- Cork
- Parish, community, or townland
- Rath
- Latitude
- 51.98154
- Longitude
- -7.96484
- Altitude
- 135 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort and multiple enclosure
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 0, SW 2, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 4.74 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 1.77 ha, 4.74 ha
- Footprint
- 4.91 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1994)
Identifiers
- HER
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database CO067-001001
- National record
- record CO 067
- Wikidata
- Q31067493
Sources
References
- Power, D. 1994. Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork. Stationary Office, Dublin.