Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Kilcolman (muskerry East By.), County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilcolman (muskerry East By.)
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1938)
- Coordinates
- 51.93808, -8.76135
- SMR number
- CO061-105----
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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. Circular area (diam. 29m) defined by earthen bank (H 1.2m), stone-faced in parts. Break (Wth c. 2m) in bank to ESE. Field boundary which extended N from enclosure removed. 'Some drains 9in wide and 12in deep (part of recent drainage system) cut across the interior' (Hartnett 1939, 271); no visible surface trace.
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
- Ritual site - holy/saint's stoneunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 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.