Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Kilmaclenine, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilmaclenine
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1937)
- Coordinates
- 52.20287, -8.73297
- SMR number
- CO024-051----
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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 NW-facing slope. Depicted as circular depression (diam. c. 40m) on 1937 OS 6-inch map, bisected off centre to NE by field boundary; arc formed by hachured bank survives on 1842 and 1905 OS 6-inch map, to SW of field boundary; field boundary hachured on 1842 OS 6-inch map, as if forming part of enclosure. Circular area (32m NNW-SSE) enclosed by shallow fosse, best preserved ESE->W. Interior on NE side cut by field boundary running NNW->SSE. Deep drain cut along both sides of field boundary. Well depicted, immediately to N of enclosure, on all three editions of OS 6-inch map.
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
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.