Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Lackendarragh, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lackendarragh
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Kilcullin fort (1938)
- Coordinates
- 52.07954, -8.76231
- SMR number
- CO041-044004-
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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 SW-facing slope, within NE half of early ecclesiastical enclosure (CO041-04401-). Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) and named 'Kilcullin fort' on 1842 OS 6-inch map; marked 'Kilcullin fort (site of )' on 1904 and 1938 OS 6-inch maps. Circular area (diam. c. 18.5m) defined by low rise W->SE. Described by OS Field Book of 1839 as '''Killchilling Fort, church of the holly...a small fort, which it is considered was on a burying ground [CO041-04406-], on account of a good number of human bones having been got in it."' (Grove White 1905-25, vol. 3, 333). Windele recorded site as 'an old kile, which formed an oblong square, 16 to 20 paces broad, and somewhat longer' (ibid.). Windele revisited site in 1850 and recorded that the fort had disappeared and the area was under cultivation (ibid., 333-4). Standing stone (CO041-04405-) on perimeter of site to NW. Souterrain (CO041-04402-) discovered 28.5m to NW of site.
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
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.