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Ballycotten
Cork, Republic of Ireland ยท Atlas IR0815
Location
- Atlas number
- IR0815 (815)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Cork
- Historic county
- Cork
- Parish, community, or townland
- Ballycotten
- Latitude
- 52.96108
- Longitude
- -9.39171
- Altitude
- 92 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 3
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 0.19 ha
- Footprint
- 0.24 ha
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east); Simple Gap (South east); Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1842); Earthwork Survey (1906)
Identifiers
- HER
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database CL015-041
- National record
- record CL 015
- Wikidata
- Q31065701
Sources