Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Kippagh (muskerry West By.), County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kippagh (muskerry West By.)
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.04897, -9.12737
- SMR number
- CO038-058001-
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 level pasture. Circular area (35m N-S; 34m E-W), planted with pine, enclosed by earthen bank (H 1.9m); short section of external fosse survives to NW (D 0.4m); longer section SSE->W (D 0.75m) enclosed by stone-built field fence. Laneway skirts bank W->NW. Interior saucer-shaped; large stone (1m x 0.5m x 0.2m) lying at centre; possible souterrain (9061) off-centre to W.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). 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
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.