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
- 52.08780, -8.76980
- SMR number
- CO041-025----
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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 pasture, on E-facing slope. Depicted as hachured oval enclosure with bank overlapping to SSW on 1842 OS 6-inch map; on 1938 OS 6-inch map overlapping banks hachured to SW, open to NW with scarp shown NE->S. Roughly circular area (c. 32m x 27.8m) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.55m; ext. H 0.8m) SSE->W; scarp (max. H 2.2m) NNE->SSE. Bank overlaps at SSW for c. 8m, separated by intervening fosse. Recorded by Bowman (1934, 542) as oval double-ramparted fort (36yd x 22yd) with one-sixth of each rampart remaining.
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
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Stone rowunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.