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Carn Tighernagh
Cork, Republic of Ireland ยท Atlas IR0665
Location
- Atlas number
- IR0665 (665)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Cork
- Historic county
- Cork
- Parish, community, or townland
- Corrin Hill
- Latitude
- 52.11497
- Longitude
- -8.28290
- Altitude
- 219 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort and multiple enclosure
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate, partial bivallate, and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 5
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 2, SW 2, NW 5
- Number of ditches
- 5
- Possible original entrances
- 3
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 4
- Enclosed area
- 5.38 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 3.21 ha, 5.38 ha
- Footprint
- 5.38 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and rubble
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (North west); Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and ridge
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- commercial forestry and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery and human bones
- Investigations
- Other (1832); Other (1998); Earthwork Survey (2008)
Identifiers
- HER
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database CO035-049001
- National record
- record CO 035
- Wikidata
- Q31065613
Sources
References
- Borlase, P. 1897, 13..................................................................................
- Doody, M. 2008. The Ballyhoura Hills Project. Wordwell, Dublin.