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Dunnycove
Cork, Republic of Ireland ยท Atlas IR0839
Location
- Atlas number
- IR0839 (839)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Cork
- Historic county
- Cork
- Parish, community, or townland
- Dunnycove
- Latitude
- 51.55898
- Longitude
- -8.89149
- Altitude
- 23 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.2 ha
- Footprint
- 0.23 ha
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- west
- Land use
- pasture and coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- round stone structures and rectangular stone structures
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1914); Earthwork Survey (1986)
Identifiers
- HER
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database CO144-034001
- National record
- record CO 144
- Wikidata
- Q31066020
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. 1914. Fortified headlands and castles on the south coast of Munster. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 32C, 104-105.