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Caherdrinny
Cork, Republic of Ireland ยท Atlas IR0667
Location
- Atlas number
- IR0667 (667)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Cork
- Historic county
- Cork
- Parish, community, or townland
- Caherdrinny
- Latitude
- 52.22190
- Longitude
- -8.29753
- Altitude
- 210 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 0, SW 1, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 5
- Enclosed area
- 12.01 ha
- Footprint
- 12.59 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North west); Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- round stone structures
- Investigations
- Earthwork Survey (2008)
Identifiers
- HER
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database CO019-097003
- National record
- record CO 019
- Wikidata
- Q31065656
Sources
References
- Doody, M. 2008. The Ballyhoura Hills Project. Wordwell, Dublin.