Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Gneeves (muskerry West By.), County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gneeves (muskerry West By.)
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.02587, -9.10101
- SMR number
- CO048-160----
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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 E-facing slope overlooking Comeenatrush River. Circular area (21.6m N-S) defined by low earthen bank (int. H 0.1m; ext. H 1.75m) NNW->SSE. Field boundary shown curving SSE->NNW on 1842, 1904 and 1938 OS 6-inch maps possibly incorporated bank; levelled, with yard of bungalow truncating SW side of enclosure. Interior raised on E side to compensate for hillslope. Locally known as fort; referred to by Broker (1937, 49) as 'fort, one eight acre, double fence, half levelled' on Tom Mullane's land.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). 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
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.