Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Knockatooan, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockatooan
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1935)
- Coordinates
- 52.29242, -9.21011
- SMR number
- CO004-004----
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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 pasture, on gentle SW-facing slope. Depicted as hachured circular raised area (diam. c. 30m) on 1935 OS 6-inch map, bisected off-centre to E by N-S field boundary. Levelled; earthen bank (int. H 0.55m; ext. H 0.8m) survives to NE for 2m, on E side of stone field boundary; levelled bank visible NE->SE due to differential growth pattern; low rise survives NW->NNE. Interior level. According to local information, low bank enclosing NE quadrant levelled c. 1981.
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
- Kiln - limeunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.