Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Knocknageeha West, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knocknageeha West
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1938)
- Coordinates
- 52.13497, -9.10680
- SMR number
- CO029-060----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Ireland 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
In pasture, on flat plateau above sharp fall of ground down to stream on N side. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 22m), truncated by field boundary to S, on 1842 OS 6-inch map; hachured arc of bank survives SW->NNE on 1904 and 1938 OS 6-inch maps. Circular slightly raised area (c. 20m N-S; c. 20m E-W) defined by earthen bank (int. H 0.6m; ext. H 1.3m) SW->N; scarp elsewhere, difficult to trace accurately due to long grass. Bank heavily overgrown; interior grass-covered. One of two forts (CO029-081---) recorded by Bowman (1934, 275) on S. Walsh's land, as single-ramparted with diameters of c. 35yd and c. 31yd. Two ringforts also recorded by Broker (1937, 51); this is probably one in 'Faill field'.
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
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.