Satellite Imagery
Satellite Imagery
HER: Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database CO067-001001 (None)
NMR: CO 067 (None)
SM: None
NGR: None
X: 602415 Y: 581055 (IRENET95)
Multiple enclosure approximately 8.5km to the WNW of Youghal town. The site is strategically positioned on the summit of a hilltop in Rath townland, with panoramic views from the summit. It is strategically positioned at a bend in the Tourig River, which flows along the base of the hill to the W and S. This river connects to Youghal Bay 7km to the E which is also visible from the summit of the hillfort. The enclosing elements survive in varying states of preservation. The inner stands to a height of 0.5m at the NNE and SSW, but is ploughed out for the remainder of its circuit. The outer enclosing element, which is separated from the inner by a maximum of 103m, is apparent as a series of modern earthen field boundaries at the SW and NW. There are no obvious entrance features recorded. There are no obvious features visible on the surface, and a bivallate ringfort stands in the centre of the inner enclosure. The majority of the interior of the inner enclosing element and NW portion of the total enclosed area is under dense scrub and bracken growth. The remainder of the site is under pasture.
Citizen Science: ✗
Reliability of Data: Confirmed
Reliability of Interpretation: Confirmed
X: -886642 Y: 6796789 (EPSG: 3857)
Longitude: -7.964844034784013 Latitude: 51.98154272316584 (EPSG:4326)
Country: Republic of Ireland
Current County or Unitary Authority: Cork
Historic County: Cork
Current Parish/Community/Council/Townland: Rath
Portions of both the inner and outer enclosing elements have been ploughed out.
| Extant | ✓ |
| Cropmark | ✗ |
| Likely Destroyed | ✓ |
The majority of the interior of the inner enclosing element and NW portion of the total enclosed area is under dense scrub and bracken growth.
| Woodland | ✗ |
| Commercial Forestry Plantation | ✗ |
| Parkland | ✗ |
| Pasture (Grazing) | ✓ |
| Arable | ✗ |
| Scrub/Bracken | ✓ |
| Bare Outcrop | ✗ |
| Heather/Moorland | ✗ |
| Heath | ✗ |
| Built-up | ✗ |
| Coastal Grassland | ✗ |
| Other | ✗ |
Multiple enclosure on the summit of hilltop in Rath townland. There are panoramic views from the summit. The site is strategically positioned at a bend in the Tourig River which flows along the base of the hill to the W and S. This river connects to Youghal Bay 7km to the E.
| Contour Fort | ✓ |
| Partial Contour Fort | ✗ |
| Promontory Fort | ✗ |
| Hillslope Fort | ✗ |
| Level Terrain Fort | ✗ |
| Marsh Fort | ✗ |
| Multiple Enclosure Fort | ✓ |
| Hilltop | ✓ |
| Coastal Promontory | ✗ |
| Inland Promontory | ✗ |
| Valley Bottom | ✗ |
| Knoll/Hillock/Outcrop | ✗ |
| Ridge | ✗ |
| Cliff/Plateau-edge/Scarp | ✗ |
| Hillslope | ✗ |
| Lowland | ✗ |
| Spur | ✗ |
Dominant Topographic Feature: Hilltop summit overlooking the Tourig River to the W and S.
| North | ✗ |
| Northeast | ✗ |
| East | ✗ |
| Southeast | ✗ |
| South | ✗ |
| Southwest | ✗ |
| West | ✗ |
| Northwest | ✗ |
| Level | ✓ |
Altitude: 135.0m
N/A
No dating evidence.
Reliability: D - None
| Pre 1200BC | ✗ |
| 1200BC - 800BC | ✗ |
| 800BC - 400BC | ✗ |
| 400BC - AD50 | ✗ |
| AD50 - AD400 | ✗ |
| AD400 - AD 800 | ✗ |
| Post AD800 | ✗ |
| Unknown | ✓ |
| Pre Hillfort: | None |
| Post Hillfort: | Early medieval ringfort within interior. |
The N and S sections of the inner enclosing elements and the possible W and SW section of the outer enlclosure were recorded as field boundaries in the first and second edition Ordnance Survey maps. Site survey by Power (1994).
| Other (1994): | Mounment survey by Power (1994). |
Early medieval ringfort positioned centrally within the inner enclosing elements at the summit of the hilltop.
None
| None | ✓ |
| Spring | ✗ |
| Stream | ✗ |
| Pool | ✗ |
| Flush | ✗ |
| Well | ✗ |
| Other | ✗ |
Ringfort
| No Known Features | ✗ |
| Round Stone Structures | ✗ |
| Rectangular Stone Structures | ✗ |
| Curvilinear Platforms | ✗ |
| Other Roundhouse Evidence | ✗ |
| Pits | ✗ |
| Quarry Hollows | ✗ |
| Other | ✓ |
None
| No Known Excavation | ✓ |
| Pits | ✗ |
| Postholes | ✗ |
| Roundhouses | ✗ |
| Rectangular Structures | ✗ |
| Roads/Tracks | ✗ |
| Quarry Hollows | ✗ |
| Other | ✗ |
| Nothing Found | ✗ |
None
| No Known Geophysics | ✓ |
| Pits | ✗ |
| Roundhouses | ✗ |
| Rectangular Structures | ✗ |
| Roads/Tracks | ✗ |
| Quarry Hollows | ✗ |
| Other | ✗ |
| Nothing Found | ✗ |
No known finds.
| No Known Finds | ✓ |
| Pottery | ✗ |
| Metal | ✗ |
| Metalworking | ✗ |
| Human Bones | ✗ |
| Animal Bones | ✗ |
| Lithics | ✗ |
| Environmental | ✗ |
| Other | ✗ |
NO APPARENT FEATURES
| APs Not Checked | ✗ |
| None | ✓ |
| Roundhouses | ✗ |
| Rectangular Structures | ✗ |
| Pits | ✗ |
| Postholes | ✗ |
| Roads/Tracks | ✗ |
| Other | ✗ |
No obvious entrance features have been recorded. A considerable portion of the enclosing elements have been levelled.
| 0: | None |
| 2: | None |
Guard Chambers: ✗
Chevaux de Frise: ✗
The inner enclosing element comprises an earthen bank approximately 0.5m high internally. Its width is not recorded. This was built at the edge of a break in slope. The eastern side, from SSE to NNE, was removed prior to the first recorded plan of the site, in what were probably reclamation works. The possible outer enclosing element is a maximum of 103m from the inner defences and is visible as a series of modern earthen field boundaries.
| Area 1: | 1.77ha. |
| Area 2: | 4.74ha. |
| Total: | 4.74ha. |
Total Footprint Area: 4.91ha.
None
| ✗ | None |
| ✗ | The enclosing elements have been ploughed out and probably comprised complete circuits. |
| NE Quadrant: | 1 |
| SE Quadrant: | 0 |
| SW Quadrant: | 2 |
| NW Quadrant: | 1 |
| Total: | 2 |
| Partial Univallate | ✓ |
| Univallate | ✗ |
| Partial Bivallate | ✓ |
| Bivallate | ✗ |
| Partial Multivallate | ✗ |
| Multivallate | ✗ |
| Unknown | ✗ |
| Partial Univallate | ✗ |
| Univallate | ✓ |
| Partial Bivallate | ✗ |
| Bivallate | ✗ |
| Partial Multivallate | ✗ |
| Multivallate | ✗ |
None
| None | ✗ |
| Earthen Bank | ✓ |
| Stone Wall | ✗ |
| Rubble | ✗ |
| Wall-walk | ✗ |
| Evidence of Timber | ✗ |
| Vitrification | ✗ |
| Other Burning | ✗ |
| Palisade | ✗ |
| Counter Scarp Bank | ✗ |
| Berm | ✗ |
| Unfinished | ✗ |
| Other | ✗ |
None
| None | ✗ |
| Earthen Bank | ✗ |
| Stone Wall | ✗ |
| Murus Duplex | ✗ |
| Timber-framed | ✗ |
| Timber-laced | ✗ |
| Vitrification | ✗ |
| Other Burning | ✗ |
| Palisade | ✗ |
| Counter Scarp Bank | ✗ |
| Berm | ✗ |
| Unfinished | ✗ |
| No Known Excavation | ✓ |
| Other | ✗ |
| ✗ | None |
| ✗ | No obvious ditch features identified. |
Number of Ditches: 0
| ✗ | None. |
Power, D. 1994. Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork. Stationary Office, Dublin.
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