Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Knocknagapple, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knocknagapple
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.08523, -8.15920
- SMR number
- CO045-144----
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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 an overgrown fallow area of a field at the edge of a steep precipice. Indicated as a circular 'Danish Fort' a 1773-4 map (no. 23) by B. Scalé (NLI MSS 7216-18). The remains consist of a raised D-shaped area (12.5m N-S), with the straight side at N (L 19m), defined by a scarp E-W. The height of the scarp varies between 0.35m and c. 2m, being highest towards the E. On the straight N side the rath is defined by a steep precipice (H c. 6m) that drops down to a valley floor. The interior slopes gently down to the N. There is a N-S farm roadway immediately to the E of the rath.
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Kiln - limeunder 1 mi
- Mill - cornunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.