Cork Benchmarks

We're mapping the surviving Ordnance Survey benchmarks of Cork City as part of a project supported by Cork City Council.

[Cork Benchmarks @BenchmarksCork]

Join us for a walking tour of Cork City's benchmarks as part of @HeritageWeek! Learn about the history of these often overlooked features in the built heritage landscape, and how to locate and map your own finds. Places are limited so booking is essential: https://t.co/HbjUU7VquM

[Cork Benchmarks @BenchmarksCork]

@oliver_moran Thanks for following this up Oliver!

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Glad to hear this benchmark will be reinstated and at the correct elevation.

Well done to @SignsTheReading for highlighting that it had been removed as part of the new works; it's likely this part of Cork's built heritage landscape would have been lost forever otherwise.

[Oliver Moran 🇪🇺 @oliver_moran]

UPDATE: I spoke with engineers involved at last Monday's meeting of #CorkCC.

The benchmark is safe and will be restored. A stone bench is planned at this location, which would have obscured the benchmark. The benchmark will be reinserted into this bench at the same elevation.

[The Roaming Ninja @theroamingninja]

Outside the gate of King House #Boyle #CountyRoscommon #Ireland #BenchmarkMonday pancakes in the cafe at King House are also fab! 😋 April 2023

[Mixed Messages @SignsTheReading]

A nice benchmark on a quay wall spotted recently

https://t.co/HaxaPH82bH

[Cork Benchmarks @BenchmarksCork]

@ubermick Hi Gaz, I don't think that's a benchmark (looks to me like it was cut with an angle grinder rather than with a chisel), but a good way to be certain would be to check that location on an old OS map and see if there's a "BM" and a figure for the height above sea level at that spot

[JJ O'Donoghue @jj_nodonoghue]

For the Friday View on @TDrisheen this week I talked w/ Tony McGrath @SignsTheReading abt benchmarks. Tony spotted the benchmark which was moved in the construction work on Patrick's Hill, & he has a worthwhile idea abt how we could all learn more about benchmarks

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@jj_nodonoghue If you want to go further down the rabbit hole, check out our project to map Cork's surviving OS benchmarks! 🤓

https://t.co/GqrnLj2qoo

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This is an awful shame! Was a rare example of a benchmark on a kerb, as noted by @SignsTheReading. Hopefully the old kerb stones (and benchmark) will be reincorporated into the completed works 🤞 @The_VQ_Cork @GardenCityShane

[Mixed Messages @SignsTheReading]

And there it was - gone

Looks like the old benchmark has lost out to the public realm works on MacCurtain St/Patrick's Hill, #Cork

https://t.co/XEiOfRFHFB

[Dr Catherine Porter 🏳️‍🌈🌳😷 @CatSPorter]

Always telling my students to look up but sometimes you also need to look down #OS200 #Benchmark #Wexford @Irelandmapped #TailteEireann #OS #CIG2023

[Cllr Kieran McCarthy @cllrkmac]

#CorkIrlmemory Many thanks to all participated in the City Workhouse tour for @learning_fest; Next up: Sat 15 April, The Friar’s Walk; Discover Red Abbey, Elizabeth Fort, Barrack Street, Callanan’s Tower & Greenmount area; Meet at Red Abbey tower, off Douglas Street, 2pm, free.

[Street Art Ink @StreetArtInk]

Finished artwork by artist Garreth Joyce for Street Art Ink in Cork City. This project was commissioned by the @defenceforces and supported @corkcitycouncil
More art like this in the Rebel City and county!!!🖼️

[Cork Benchmarks @BenchmarksCork]

Anyone know of any others?

#benchmark @OrdnanceIreland

[Nina McNeary @Heritage_Nina]

Is this the only High Cross with a benchmark? Clones in Co #Monaghan
#sculpturesaturday

[Killaloe-Ballina Local History Society @Killaloehist]

We have one with a copper bolt too, down by the Killaloe canal at site of lock & lock house. Always thought it was chewing gum stuck in the centre! Thanks for the explanation.

[Cork Benchmarks @BenchmarksCork]

@tidesntales @newrossstreetf1 @VisitNewRoss @ray_hutchings A copper bolt #benchmark was located on Custom House Quay in Cork, but it seems that it hasn't survived

[Cork Benchmarks @BenchmarksCork]

@tidesntales @newrossstreetf1 @VisitNewRoss Great find! Looks like a 'rivet' benchmark with the copper bolt still intact. We've found lots of pivot benchmarks during our survey which are similar, but no rivet ones so far I don't think. @ray_hutchings has a great blog with more info: https://t.co/ADX7SlVJOn

[Cork Benchmarks @BenchmarksCork]

A copper bolt benchmark was located on Custom House Quay in Cork, but it seems that it hasn't survived

[Cork Benchmarks @BenchmarksCork]

Great find! Looks like a 'rivet' benchmark with the copper bolt still intact. We've found lots of pivot benchmarks during our survey which are similar, but no rivet ones so far I don't think. @ray_hutchings has a great blog with more info: https://t.co/ADX7SlWhDV

[A Doherty @tidesntales]

Spotted this while out exploring New Ross #Wexford yesterday, it's on the town side of the old bridge. It seems to be a crows foot, or map makers benchmark, but any I've seen tend to be vertical against a wall, whereas this is lying flat on the quayside

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Example of a well preserved pivot #benchmark in St Mary's New Ross, #Wexford.

Somewhat unusually the benchmark is on the ground hidden by the door. Very inconspicuous!

I wonder was this done due to an objection to the regular cut benchmark being visible on the outside wall?

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@FurryJams Of course!

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We are once again running our Benchmarks Tour for #HeritageWeek2022

It will be similar to last year's tour! 😆

Please book ahead by emailing: [email protected]

Tour info:
https://t.co/zhUzB3oJi6

Hope to see some of you there!