Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Killabraher South, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killabraher South
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1936)
- Coordinates
- 52.29907, -8.78577
- SMR number
- CO007-066----
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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 S-facing slope. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure on 1842 and 1905 OS 6-inch maps; hachured as circular area (diam. c. 20m) enclosed by fosse on 1936 OS 6-inch map; shown as truncated by roadway to W on 1842, 1905 and 1936 OS 6-inch maps. Levelled; subcircular area (c. 36m N-S) enclosed by shallow fosse (D 0.2m; Wth 2m). Fosse most clearly defined N->E and ESE->SE; cut by roadway to W.
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
- Cliff-edge fortunder 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.