Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Knocknageeha North, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knocknageeha North
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1842)
- Coordinates
- 52.13089, -9.09968
- SMR number
- CO030-071----
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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 SW-facing slope. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map. Circular area (diam. 28m) defined by earthen bank (int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.9m) NE->W. Bank incorporated into field boundary system NE->ESE; deep V-shaped drain dug to outside and material dumped atop bank. Rough surface suggests fosse infilled to S and SW. Interior slopes down to SW; planted with young trees. One of three levelled single-ramparted forts (CO030-070---; CO030-073---) recorded by Bowman 91934, 277) on Miss Victoria Allen's land.
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
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.