Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Burnfort, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Burnfort
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Burn Fort (1935)
- Coordinates
- 52.07207, -8.59771
- SMR number
- CO042-052001-
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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. Depicted on 1904 and 1935 OS 6-inch maps as hachured, bivallate circular enclosure. Roughly circular area (48m N-S; 45m E-W), defined by earthen bank (H 1.8m); planted with conifers. Bank partially levelled and extensively disturbed where it survives. Field fence curves concentric to fort 12m to N; may incorporate remains of outer bank. Described by Coleman (1947, 71) as 'well preserved single ramparted fort 130ft in diameter, with remains of a fosse'. Souterrain (8856) in interior.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). 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
- Ogham stoneunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.