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Donneendermotmore
Cork, Republic of Ireland ยท Atlas IR0826
Location
- Atlas number
- IR0826 (826)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Cork
- Historic county
- Cork
- Parish, community, or townland
- Dooneenmacotter
- Latitude
- 51.48198
- Longitude
- -9.23255
- Altitude
- 6 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 0, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.06 ha
- Footprint
- 0.06 ha
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Other Forms (North)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- south
- Land use
- scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- after AD 800 and undated
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- rectangular stone structures
- Interior excavation
- rectangular structures
- Finds
- pottery, metal, and lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1842); 1st Identified Written Reference (1914); Excavation (1952); Earthwork Survey (1992)
Identifiers
- HER
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database CO151-040
- National record
- record CO 151
- Wikidata
- Q31065742
Sources
References
- O'Kelly, M. J. 1952. Three promontory forts in Co. Cork. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 55C, 35-54.
- Power, D., Byrne, E., Egan, U., Lane, S., and Sleeman, M. 1992. Archaeological Inventory of County Cork Volume 1: West Cork. The stationary Office, Dublin.
- Westropp, T.J. 1914. Fortified headlands and castles on the south coast of Munster. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 32C, 104-105.