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Greenane (Bear Island)
Cork (Bear Island), Republic of Ireland ยท Atlas IR0851
Location
- Atlas number
- IR0851 (851)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Cork (Bear Island)
- Historic county
- Cork
- Parish, community, or townland
- Greenane
- Latitude
- 51.61304
- Longitude
- -9.88509
- Altitude
- 80 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
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 17.15 ha
- Footprint
- 17.15 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- southwest
- Land use
- scrub or bracken and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- rectangular stone structures
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1842); Earthwork Survey (1985)
Identifiers
- HER
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database CO128-005
- National record
- record CO 128
- Wikidata
- Q31119502
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.