Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Velvetstown, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Velvetstown
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Lisheen a Thoura (1937)
- Coordinates
- 52.26705, -8.65619
- SMR number
- CO017-012----
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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 break in N-facing slope. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure on 1842 OS 6-inch map, interior planted with trees; indicated as circular enclosure on 1906 OS 6-inch map, with interior planted; hachured as circular area (diam. c. 20m) enclosed by fosse on 1937 OS 6-inch map. No visible surface trace of site; according to local information, bivallate fort, levelled c. 1956. Fosse of circular enclosure visible as cropmark in aerial photograph (GSIAP, R645).
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). 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
- Country houseunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.