Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Caherkeen, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Caherkeen
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1899)
- Coordinates
- 51.66843, -10.03761
- SMR number
- CO114-013----
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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
On lower NE-facing slope of Knocknagallaun. Roughly circular area (27.7m N-S; 24.5m E-W) enclosed by scarp (H 2.2m) N->S, stone faced in parts; by ruined stone wall S->SW; and by sharp rise (H 1.4m) SW->NNW. Interior cuts into hillside to W and is raised on E side to compensate for downslope. Foundations of circular stone-built hut site (5.6m N-S; 6.1m E-W) off-centre to N.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). 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
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.