Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Knockbarry (orrery And Kilmore By., Liscarroll Par.), County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockbarry (orrery And Kilmore By., Liscarroll Par.)
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1937)
- Coordinates
- 52.25254, -8.81382
- SMR number
- CO016-088----
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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 W-facing slope. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map, with limekiln in NE bank; hachured as circular raised area (diam. c. 30m) with outer bank to N, E and SW on 1905 and 1937 OS 6-inch maps. Site inaccessible due to white and blackthorn overgrowth except limited area to NW; two enclosing earthen banks visible (inner bank: int. H 0.6m, ext. H 1.6m; outer bank: H 0.5m), with intervening fosse (D 0.4m).
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
- Battlefieldunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.