Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Knockshanawee, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockshanawee
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1943)
- Coordinates
- 51.86333, -8.79419
- SMR number
- CO084-006----
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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 S-facing slope. Roughly circular area (41m NW-SE) enclosed by steep scarp (H 2m) SE->W; earthen bank (int. H 0.65m; ext. H 1.6m) W->NE. Bank incorporated into field fence system NNW->NE. Growth of furze bushes roughly on line of levelled bank encloses interior on E side. Scarp face and edge of interior also heavily overgrown with furze. Fosse (D 0.8m) survives for short section to NE where field fence joins bank. Interior raised on S and W sides to compensate for hillslope.
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
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Bridgeunder 1 mi
- Anomalous stone groupunder 1 mi
- Country houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.