Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Knocknagree, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knocknagree
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Knocknagree Fort (1938)
- Coordinates
- 52.12065, -9.20548
- SMR number
- CO029-027001-
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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 S-facing slope to SE of Knocknagree village. Circular area (46m N-S) enclosed by overgrown earthen bank (int. H 1.9m; ext. H 2.2m). Break (Wth 2m) in bank to SW. Interior covered in tall rough grass; souterrain (CO029-02702-) at N side. Recorded by Bowman (1934, 658) as single-ramparted fort in E. MacSweeney's, with 'fosse c. 14 feet wide, now practically filled in'.
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
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.