Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Kiltass, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kiltass
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1936)
- Coordinates
- 52.33020, -8.71609
- SMR number
- CO007-046----
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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 low-lying pasture land. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure on 1842, 1905 and 1936 OS 6-inch maps; as bivallate circular enclosure on 1905 OS 6-inch map, with outer bank not shown along SE quadrant. Levelled; circular area (c. 38m NE-SW) defined by two concentric shallow fosses (D 0.25m) N->ESE; ill defined outline visible along W half. Fosses NNE->ESE clearly visible as cropmark in aerial photograph (CASAP). Section of field boundary respecting NW quadrant of site and incorporating outer bank (1905 OS 6-inch map) also levelled. Large depression in NW quadrant of interior.
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.