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Ringfort - rath

Knocknageeha East, County Cork, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Knocknageeha East, County Cork, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Knocknageeha East
County
Cork
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1937)
Coordinates
52.13096, -9.09022
SMR number
CO030-088----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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 field called 'Cluain Mhor' (Broker 1937, 51), atop E-W ridge. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure on 1842, 1904 and 1937 OS 6-inch maps; interior planted on 1904 OS 6-inch map. Levelled; arc formed by earthen bank (int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1.2m) survives incorporated into field fence system SE->SW; low rise to N marks line of levelled bank. Interior (diam. c. 41m) mainly under pasture except W side which is under tillage. Shallow external fosse (D 0.2m) survives to S where field fence extends S from fort. Recorded by Broker (ibid.) and Bowman (1934, 276) as double-ramparted fort on T. O' Keeffe's land; outer rampart levelled. Two ringforts (CO030-087---, CO030-090---) and one possible ringfort (CO030-089---) lie c. 200m to SSE, c. 120m to ESE and c. 100m to E respectively.

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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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