Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Killagrohan, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killagrohan
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1936)
- Coordinates
- 52.15584, -8.69099
- SMR number
- CO032-050----
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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 level pasture. Roughly circular, raised area (25m N-S; 21m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (ext. H 0.5m) with external fosse (D 0.7m). Break (Wth 0.64m) in bank to NNW. Fosse generally silted up and waterlogged. Interior planted with trees; inner fosse (Wth 1m; D 0.3m) noted SW->NNE; SE side of interior appears higher than remainder.
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
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.