Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Knocknagoun, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knocknagoun
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Stone Circles (1940)
- Coordinates
- 51.99835, -8.84408
- SMR number
- CO049-039----
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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
Depicted as hachured mound (diam. c. 15m) on 1904 OS 6-inch map. In scrubland, on S side of Knocknagoun Mountain, c. 100m to E of circular enclosure (CO049-038----). According to O Nualláin (1984a, 47) '...a bank about 14m in diameter faced with stone...nature uncertain'.
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.