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Earthwork
Knockbarry (orrery And Kilmore By., Buttevant Par.), County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockbarry (orrery And Kilmore By., Buttevant Par.)
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1937)
- Coordinates
- 52.21806, -8.69042
- SMR number
- CO016-217----
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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 S-facing slope. Depicted as hachured bank (C c. 35m) NW->SE on 1905 and 1937 OS 6-inch maps. Arc visible as upstanding bank in aerial photograph (GSIAP, R527, July 1975) and as cropmark of two wide banks separated by intervening fosse in second aerial photograph (CASAP). According to local information, levelled in 1983. Rock outcrop (H 1m) at NW, formed part of 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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 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.