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Gortacrossig
Cork, Republic of Ireland ยท Atlas IR0848
Location
- Atlas number
- IR0848 (848)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Cork
- Historic county
- Cork
- Parish, community, or townland
- Gortacrossig
- Latitude
- 51.48747
- Longitude
- -9.21048
- Altitude
- 25 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 0, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 1.86 ha
- Footprint
- 2.18 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Other Forms (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- east
- Land use
- scrub or bracken and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1902); 1st Identified Written Reference (1914); Earthwork Survey (1985)
Identifiers
- HER
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database CO151-042
- National record
- record CO 151
- Wikidata
- Q31066114
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.