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Lissamona/Lios Ó Móine (Clear Island)
Cork (Clear Island), Republic of Ireland · Atlas IR0856
Location
- Atlas number
- IR0856 (856)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Cork (Clear Island)
- Historic county
- Cork
- Parish, community, or townland
- Lissamona
- Latitude
- 51.44674
- Longitude
- -9.49363
- Altitude
- 11 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.14 ha
- Footprint
- 0.22 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- north
- Land use
- pasture and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1842); 1st Identified Written Reference (1915); Earthwork Survey (1984)
Identifiers
- HER
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database CO153-005
- National record
- record CO 153
- Wikidata
- Q31119537
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.