Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Knockatoor, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockatoor
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1934)
- Coordinates
- 51.78956, -8.37633
- SMR number
- CO099-003----
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 NW-facing slope. Shown as small hachured arc on 1934 OS 6-inch map. Short section of earthen bank (ext. H 2.15m; int. H 0.2m) with shallow outer fosse runs NE-SW, scarped up from natural slope; curving to SE at SW end.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). 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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Standing stone - pairunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.