Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Kilcrea, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilcrea
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1943)
- Coordinates
- 51.86165, -8.69463
- SMR number
- CO084-026001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 side of River Bride. Hachured as oval enclosure (c. 50m E-W; c. 40m N-S) on 1842 OS 6-inch map; railway line cut through enclosure on E-W axis on 1903 and 1943 OS 6-inch maps. Irregular mound survives on each side of disused railway line. 'Known locally as a lios' (Hartnett 1939, 160). Souterrain (CO084-026002-) in interior.
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
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Country houseunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.