Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Cullane South, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cullane South
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Knockbrack Fort, Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cnoc Breac (Fort), Hachured (1927)
- Coordinates
- 52.32012, -8.36398
- SMR number
- LI057-059----
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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 20m NW of a watercourse that marks the townland boundary with Tooraleagan and 50m W of the Monaheancree Stream that marks the county boundary with Cork. Annotated ‘Knockbrack fort’ on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map where it is depicted as a circular-shaped area defined by a scarp. It is shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a roughly oval-shaped area (dims. c. 39m N-S; 55m E-W) enclosed by a bank from SW-N reduced to a scarp elsewhere with outer fosse from N-E and at S, gap at NNW. Visible as an oval-shaped cropmark delimited by trees on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 9 November 2021
Nearby in the register
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Wellunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.