Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Kilberrihert (duhallow By.), County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilberrihert (duhallow By.)
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1937)
- Coordinates
- 52.25900, -8.86411
- SMR number
- CO015-025----
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 gentle SW-facing slope. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 25m) on 1842, 1905 and 1937 OS 6-inch maps. Levelled; low rise visible in area of site. Recorded by Bowman (1934, 629) as single-ramparted fort (diam. 40yd; bank 4 to 7ft H; fosse 3ft D) on Mr O'Callaghan's land, with interior raised c. 3ft above surrounding field; on E side 'rampart curves inwards forming 3 holes, which are practically circular, the diameter of each being about 15 feet'.
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
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.