Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Fortgrady, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Fortgrady
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Rath Brassail (1938)
- Coordinates
- 52.11402, -8.94952
- SMR number
- CO031-043----
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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
At SE end of gravel knoll, heavily overgrown with trees, briars and bracken; c. 80m to S of River Blackwater. Circular area (36.3m E-W; 35m N-S) enclosed by two earthen banks with intervening fosse. Inner bank survives as low rise; intervening fosse cut deep into gravel ridge (D c. 7m) to N, E and W; outer bank H 1.5m. At SE side interior raised high above level of surrounding field; fosse shallow and outer bank less well defined. Causeway across fosse to SE with break in outer bank. Banks and fosse heavily overgrown; interior covered in ferns. It was probably here that the synod of Ráith Bressail was held in 1111 (Candon 1984, 326-29).
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Battlefieldunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.