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Ballyieragh North (Clear Island)
Cork (Clear Island), Republic of Ireland ยท Atlas IR0865
Location
- Atlas number
- IR0865 (865)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Cork (Clear Island)
- Historic county
- Cork
- Parish, community, or townland
- Ballyieragh North
- Latitude
- 51.43839
- Longitude
- -9.51481
- Altitude
- 9 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Likely destroyed
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 0
- Number of ditches
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.1 ha
- Footprint
- 0.38 ha
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- southwest
- Land use
- coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- after AD 800
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- rectangular stone structures
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1842); 1st Identified Written Reference (1915); Earthwork Survey (1985)
Identifiers
- HER
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database CO153-015001
- National record
- record CO 153
- Wikidata
- Q31119545
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.