Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Knockroe East, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockroe East
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.61415, -10.01504
- SMR number
- CO127-041----
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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 a S-facing slope overlooking the mouth of Bantry Bay. A circular area (diam. 20m NW-SE) is enclosed by a scarp (Wth 0.8m; H 0.6m) SE-SW and by intermittent traces of a low earthen bank (Wth 3.8m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.35m) SW-NW. From NW-NE the rath has been cut into the upslope (D 0.1-0.25m) and from NE-SE it is truncated by a stone field boundary. The interior, in pasture, slopes gently down to the S. The field is known as 'Gort a' Leasa'. An anomalous stone group (CO127-042----) is located c. 50m to the SSW.
The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009).
Date of upload: 22 December 2009
Nearby in the register
- Anomalous stone groupunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.