Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Knockacarracoosh, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockacarracoosh
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1937)
- Coordinates
- 52.12629, -9.07325
- SMR number
- CO030-094001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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, atop E-W ridge. Circular area (29m NE-SW; 27.5m N-S) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 1.05; ext. H 1.15m) SSW->NE; less substantial bank NE->ENE; low scarp elsewhere. Modern gap in bank to ENE (Wth 3.3m). To SW of scarp is small triangular field, enclosed by field fences; hachured as part of enclosure on 1842 OS 6-inch map. Possible souterrain (CO030-09402-) in interior.
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
- 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.