Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Knockansweeny, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockansweeny
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1936)
- Coordinates
- 52.10536, -8.72479
- SMR number
- CO032-100----
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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
On top of a hill, covered in scrub; locally known as sandhill. Circular area (38m N-S; 38m E-W) enclosed by two earthen banks (inner bank: int. H 0.5m; middle bank: ext. H 1.3m) with intervening fosse; second intervening fosse and third earthen bank (H 0.8m) survives S->W. Break in inner bank and middle bank to E; second break (Wth 2m) in middle bank to NE. Interior incorporates top of hill, with highest point at centre; covered in ferns.
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.