Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Killaree, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killaree
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Lissaree (1936)
- Coordinates
- 52.33627, -8.73535
- SMR number
- CO002-097----
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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 level pasture. Circular area (48.6m N-S; 48.5m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 1.65m) with wide flat-bottomed external fosse (D 1.8m). Bank fairly uniform in height all round; ledge S->NE along external face c. 1.55m below top of bank. Gap in bank to ESE (Wth c. 1.5m) and S (Wth 2m). Interior once planted with trees (1842 OS 6-inch map); a number of large deciduous trees remain inside bank to SE and W. 'It is said an old Irish King passing through died and was interred in it (Dunworth 1989, 60). Grove White (1805-25, vol. 4, 203) records 'a so-called Danish Fort well-wooded...locally known as 'Killarree Wood'.'
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). 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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Schoolunder 1 mi
- House - vernacular houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.