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Clashanimud
Cork, Republic of Ireland · Atlas IR0666
Location
- Atlas number
- IR0666 (666)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Cork
- Historic county
- Cork
- Parish, community, or townland
- Clashanimud
- Latitude
- 51.80272
- Longitude
- -8.69325
- Altitude
- 179 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort and multiple enclosure
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 8.51 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 3.67 ha, 8.51 ha
- Footprint
- 8.51 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank and palisade
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- scrub or bracken and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- 1200–800 BC
- Dating evidence
- C14
- Dating reliability
- A - High
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1842); Geophysical Survey (2003); Excavation (2004-2006)
Identifiers
- HER
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database CO096-034
- National record
- record CO 096
- Wikidata
- Q31065629
Sources
References
- O'Brien, W. 2012. Iverni: A Prehistory of Cork. Collins Press, Cork.