Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cloonkeen (orrery And Kilmore By.), County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonkeen (orrery And Kilmore By.)
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1936)
- Coordinates
- 52.30031, -8.76383
- SMR number
- CO007-068----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In pasture, on break in SSE-facing slope. Circular area (33.4m E-W; 30.1m N-S) enclosed by low bank (max. H 0.8m) with external fosse (Wth 2.6m). Top of bank has been removed and material now fills fosse all round. Possible break in bank to ESE. Interior surface uneven and partially covered by growth of reeds; depression inside W bank.
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.