Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cliff-edge fort
Ardagh (orrery And Kilmore By.), County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ardagh (orrery And Kilmore By.)
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1936)
- Coordinates
- 52.29597, -8.78440
- SMR number
- CO007-064----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 break in SE-facing slope, above stream which forms townland boundary. Almost circular area (30.6m NW-SE; 24.7m NNE-SSW) enclosed by straight sharp fall of ground, down to stream N->NE; low earthen bank (int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.9m) S->SSW and NW->N; scarp elsewhere; external fosse (D 0.65m) NE->N. Interior slightly raised above level of surrounding field.
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.