Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Kilpatrick (duhallow By.), County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilpatrick (duhallow By.)
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1936)
- Coordinates
- 52.15582, -8.74514
- SMR number
- CO032-028----
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, on E-facing slope. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure on 1842 OS 6-inch map; arc formed by hachured field boundary survives SW->NE on 1905 and 1936 OS 6-inch maps. Levelled; slightly raised, circular area (45.5m E-W; 42.5m N-S) defined by scarp NNE->NW, with slight external depression WSW->NW. Interior raised on E side to compensate for hillslope.
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.