Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Kilcaskan South, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilcaskan South
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1938)
- Coordinates
- 52.15441, -8.88558
- SMR number
- CO031-015001-
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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 W-facing slope. Depicted as hachured roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map; short section of E bank hachured on 1938 OS 6-inch map. Levelled; earthen bank (H 0.8m; L 18.15m) curving slightly survives to E. Described in OS Field Book of 1838, as 'Kil...an old Danish fort, in which persons were formerly buried...' (Grove White 1905-25, vol.2, 224). No visible surface trace of burials in interior (CO031-01502-).
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
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- House - vernacular houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.