Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Knockaphrumpa, County Wicklow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockaphrumpa
- County
- Wicklow
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 53.01461, -6.18295
- SMR number
- WI024-023----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1799 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situation: On a slight terrace, overlooked by a low ridge immediately to the north. Overlooks a basin of bog to the west.
Condition: Overgrown with gorse on the perimeter along the east, south and west. There is grass internally.
Description: A sub-circular area (19m E-W; 19m N-S), enclosed by an earth and stone bank (width 3.3m, internal height 10 cm; external height 30-40cm), which is poorly preserved along the NW (width 1m; height 20cm), where the site may have been truncated and straightened slightly at some later stage.
At the north two small cairns flank either side of a 2.4m wide entrance feature which is probably inserted at some later stage and in so doing creating the cairns.
Compiled by: Chris Corlett
Date of upload: 19 October 2012
Nearby in the register
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.