Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Kilclare Upper, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilclare Upper
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.08729, -8.13532
- SMR number
- CO045-122001-
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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 a high plateau overlooking the valley of the river Bride. Indicated as a circular enclosure, named 'Danish Fort', on a 1773-4 map (no. 6) by B. Scalé (NLI MSS 7216-18). It is not visible at ground level. A rath (CO045-029----), similarly depicted on the Scalé map, is located 120m to the WNW and has an associated possible souterrain (CO045-128----).
The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009).
Date of upload: 22 December 2009
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.