Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Killetragh, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killetragh
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1937)
- Coordinates
- 52.11259, -8.99953
- SMR number
- CO030-135----
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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 S-facing slope. Depicted as hachured arc of bank W->N on 1937 OS 6-inch map, immediately outside and skirting curving field fence. Arc formed by two heavily overgrown earthen banks (inner bank: int. H 0.7m; outer bank: ext. H 0.4m) survives W->NE with intervening fosse and shallow external fosse (D 0.25m); low rise continues line of inner bank NE->ESE. Intervening fosse inaccessible due to overgrowth. Inner bank incorporated into field boundary system W->NE. Locally known as remains of fort. Recorded by Bowman (1934, 332) as single-ramparted fort (diam. c. 28yd) in Cornelius O'Keeffe's land; bank c. 4ft high; fosse infilled.
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
- Fulacht fiaunder 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.