Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Killabraher North, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killabraher North
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1936)
- Coordinates
- 52.30392, -8.78508
- SMR number
- CO007-017----
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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 NW-facing slope. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 65m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map, skirted by field boundary E->NW; only field boundary remains on 1905 OS 6-inch map; field boundary similar on 1936 OS 6-inch map with hachured scarp NW->E, completing circle. Levelled; arc formed by earthen field boundary survives S->NW; remains of enclosure survives to N as low scarp.
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
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.