Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Knockawaddra (muskerry East By.), County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockawaddra (muskerry East By.)
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1943)
- Coordinates
- 51.84036, -8.75578
- SMR number
- CO084-055----
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 N-facing slope of E-W ridge, overlooking Bride River valley. Circular raised area (34m E-W; 33.5m N-S) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H1.1m; ext. H 2m) E->W; scarp (H 1.5m) with slight internal lip (H 0.2m) W->E; shallow external fosse (D 0.2m) survives in part. Bank topped by field boundary NE->WSW. Interior raised on NW side 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
- Anomalous stone groupunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.