Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Blossomfort, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Blossomfort
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1937)
- Coordinates
- 52.16697, -8.76133
- SMR number
- CO024-128----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 tillage, on gentle NE-facing slope. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 45m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map; bank incorporated into field fence system SE->N on 1905 and 1937 OS 6-inch maps; E side depicted as open, hachured as scarp on 1905 and 1937 OS 6-inch maps respectively. Roughly circular area (48m N-S; 42m E-W) defined by low scarp N->NW; overgrown scarp (H 1.2m) survives in field fence system NW->N. According to local information, fosse infilled recently with earth. Circular enclosure visible as cropmark of bank and external fosse in aerial photograph (CASAP).
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
- House - vernacular houseunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.