Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Kilcranathan, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilcranathan
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1842)
- Coordinates
- 52.15087, -8.72445
- SMR number
- CO032-044----
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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, with commanding views to S and W. Depicted as hachured roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 25m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map. Levelled; bungalow built on site. Bank visible as cropmark in aerial photograph (GSIAP, W410, 03-07-1975), with S side incorporated into field boundary. Recorded by Bowman (1934, 13) as levelled single-ramparted fort (diam. c. 31yd) on J. Tarrant's land, with small portion of rampart remaining to form boundary fence.
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
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.