Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Knockdrislagh, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockdrislagh
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1938)
- Coordinates
- 52.07375, -8.71496
- SMR number
- CO041-096----
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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, atop hill. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure on 1842 OS 6-inch map; as hachured roughly oval enclosure on 1904 and 1938 OS 6-inch maps, incorporated into field boundary system to N; open to SSE on 1938 OS 6-inch map. According to local information, levelled c. 1962. Oval area (27.2m N-S; 22.7m E-W) defined by low rise NE->NW and by earthen stone-faced field boundary elsewhere. Fosse survives as slight depression to E. Recorded by Bowman (1934, 568) as fort 'in Elizabeth MacSweeney's, practically levelled' (diam. c. 25yd).
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
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.