Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Kippagh North, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kippagh North
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1938)
- Coordinates
- 52.15169, -8.82988
- SMR number
- CO031-030----
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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 rise on gentle N-facing slope. Depicted as hachured triangular enclosure on 1842 OS 6-inch map, with limekiln in N bank; arc of hachured bank survives S->NW on 1904 and 1938 OS 6-inch maps, laneway to N skirts site. Interior (diam. 27m) defined by surviving earthen bank (int. H 1.3m; ext. H 0.9m) SE->NNW. Break in bank to WNW (Wth 2m). Bank and part of interior planted with coniferous trees. Recorded by Bowman (1934, 64-5) as single-ramparted fort (diam. c. 32yd) on J. Galvin's land; bank H c. 4ft, interior c. 2ft higher than outside field level; disused limekiln on northern rampart.
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
- Burnt spreadunder 1 mi
- Burnt spreadunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.