Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Burnfort, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Burnfort
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Souterrain (1935)
- Coordinates
- 52.07203, -8.59753
- SMR number
- CO042-052002-
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 SE quadrant of ringfort (8104). Coleman (1947, 71) noted that 'a trench 10ft long shows the remains of corbelled side walls and at the northern end, a semi-circular corbelled wall is seen. The trench varies between 2ftand 3ft wide'. Depression (L 6m; Wth 3.6m; D 1m; long axis N-S) still visible inside E bank. Ogham stone (7956) found within.
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ogham stoneunder 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.