Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Knockaphreaghane (muskerry East By.), County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockaphreaghane (muskerry East By.)
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated (1943)
- Coordinates
- 51.81898, -8.70757
- SMR number
- CO084-109----
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. Shown as circular enclosure (diam. c. 35m) on 1943 OS 6-inch map; S half incorporated into field fence system, N half depicted as broken line. Circular area (diam. 33.5m) defined by earthen bank (H 1.5m) E->W; no visible surface trace of levelled bank W->E. Surviving bank incorporated into field fence system. 'Locally known as a "lios" (Hartnett 1939, 266).
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
- Mass-rock (present location)under 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.