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Dunlough
Cork, Republic of Ireland ยท Atlas IR0838
Location
- Atlas number
- IR0838 (838)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Cork
- Historic county
- Cork
- Parish, community, or townland
- Dunlough
- Latitude
- 51.48247
- Longitude
- -9.82977
- Altitude
- 62 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Likely destroyed
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 0
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- south
- Land use
- arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1901); Earthwork Survey (1915); Earthwork Survey (1985)
Identifiers
- HER
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database CO146-001001
- National record
- record CO 146
- Wikidata
- Q31065998
Sources
References
- Power, D., Byrne, E., Egan, U., Lane, S., and Sleeman, M. 1992. Archaeological Inventory of County Cork Volume 1: West Cork, 126-130. The stationary Office, Dublin.
- Westropp, T.J. 1915. Fortified headlands and castles in western County Cork. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 32C, 249-86.