Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Killowen (muskerry West By.), County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killowen (muskerry West By.)
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.07733, -9.01630
- SMR number
- CO039-170----
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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
'Fort with public road going through it, levelled, partly in Pat Sullivan's' (Broker 1937, 44). Located beside holy well (9281), called 'Cill Eoghain' and was used as a burial place for children (9345) (ibid.,25, 34). No visible surface trace; waste ground to N of roadway. May be site of ringfort later used as burial ground.
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
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Kiln - limeunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.