Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Moated site
Knockagarry, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockagarry
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1936)
- Coordinates
- 52.28612, -8.33863
- SMR number
- CO010-040001-
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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. Rectangular area (54m NW-SE; 36m NE-SW) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.4m ext. H 1.5m) with external fosse (D 0.7m). Break roughly mid-way along NE, SE, SW and NW banks; bank densely overgrown. Fosse almost totally infilled to SE where farm track constructed; slight causeway across fosse at NW break in bank. Interior slopes down gently to SE; in S quadrant, scarp extends from SW bank c. 15m into interior; almost in line with this scarp but further to NE, 'Souterrain' (13288) marked on 1936 OS 6-inch map. Remains of cultivation ridges cross interior on NW-SE axis. Listed by Barry (1981, 83, no. 54).
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
This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 13/1972).
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.