Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Grange East (orrery And Kilmore By.), County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Grange East (orrery And Kilmore By.)
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated (1842)
- Coordinates
- 52.20840, -8.68392
- SMR number
- CO024-064----
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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 tillage, on N-facing slope. Depicted as roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map, defined by double solid lines NNW->WSW which meet at their terminals and are joined on W side by single straight line; interior of enclosure and surounding field shown as rough grazing broken by rockout crop. Levelled; no visible surface trace. Area of rough ground (c. 25m x c. 20m) remains uncultivated to N of enclosure and to S of kink in field boundary. Locally known as site of 'Moss Maddens Fort'. This area is heavily overgrown and was used as dumping ground when remainder of field reclaimed.
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
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.