Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Knocknageeha East, County Cork, Ireland
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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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 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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.