2019:676 - Charles Fort, Kinsale, Cork

The top of a blowhole at Charles Fort, Kinsale, was initially investigated over two days in November 2018. The blowhole has an original (later 17th-century) built shaft, and limited excavations found the shaft had been deliberately capped and buried in the late 18th or 19th century.
Investigations in March 2019, and at the start of May, exposed the truncated walls and floor of a building, probably a latrine, built with the shaft. One corner of the structure was rebuilt with mortared rubble, and later the ground to the north was raised, and a low revetment wall was built to keep clear the approach to the doors. Ground level was raised further when the building was demolished. A similar building 40m to the south is shown on the Phillips' watercolour of Charles Fort in 1685.
Also in 2019 rubble was cleared from the inside of the roofless hospital kitchen building at Charles Fort, exposing a charred wooden floor at the north end of the building, a tiled stairs passage, and a flagged chamber with kitchen or laundry fittings (sink and boiler). The building had been derelict since being burned in 1922, and had been altered considerably since first built, probably in the 18th century.

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