Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Kilgobnet (duhallow By.), County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilgobnet (duhallow By.)
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1842)
- Coordinates
- 52.09711, -8.77809
- SMR number
- CO041-030----
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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 NNE-facing slope. Circular area (42.5m NE-SW; 40m NW-SE) defined by earthen bank (int. H 0.9m; ext. H 2.3m) W->NNE; low rise (int. H 0.2m; ext. H 1.3m) elsewhere; external fosse survives as slight depression S->W. Bank which survives W->NNE is incorporated into roadside boundary fence. Interior raised on NE side to compensate for hillslope. Circular enclosure clearly visible as shadow site in aerial photograph (CASAP); showing levelled bank NNE->SW, external fosse E->SW and possibly second bank to SW. No visible surface trace of limekiln marked on 1842 OS 6-inch map inside S bank or second limekiln outside enclosure to SW. Recorded by Bowman (1934, 539) as levelled double-ramparted fort (diam. c. 38m) on P. O'Callaghan's land.
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
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy/saint's stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.