Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Knockburden, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockburden
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1940)
- Coordinates
- 51.85317, -8.63684
- SMR number
- CO085-019----
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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. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam c. 35m) on 1842, 1903 and 1940 OS 6-inch maps. Levelled; differential grass colour defines circular area (diam. 31m). Hartnett (1939, 259) recorded rampart '7 feet in height', causewayed entrance to SW and two other 'gaps made to facilitate agricultural operations'.
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.