Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Gneeves (duhallow By., Kilshannig Par.), County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gneeves (duhallow By., Kilshannig Par.)
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1938)
- Coordinates
- 52.08663, -8.77185
- SMR number
- CO041-024----
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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. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure on 1904 and 1938 OS 6-inch maps, cut off-centre to WSW by disused roadway running NNW-SSE. According to local information, section of enclosure to E of roadway levelled c. 1981. Heavily overgrown, earthen bank (int. H 1.55m; ext. H 1.2m) survives on W side of roadway except at SSW; external fosse skirted by field boundary. Remains of limekiln in bank to SW and to N on line of bank. Recorded by Bowman (1934,542) as 'double-ramparted, each c. 12ft wide. Fosse 10ft. wide, 7ft. deep' with about two-thirds of 'outer rampart' levelled; possible souterrain (CO041-190---) in interior.
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
- Stone rowunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.