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Billeragh
Cork, Republic of Ireland ยท Atlas IR0866
Location
- Atlas number
- IR0866 (866)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Cork
- Historic county
- Cork
- Parish, community, or townland
- Billeragh
- Latitude
- 51.61455
- Longitude
- -10.13064
- Altitude
- 3 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 0
- Number of ditches
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.21 ha
- Footprint
- 0.21 ha
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- northeast
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1921); Earthwork Survey (1985)
Identifiers
- HER
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database CO126-003
- National record
- record CO 126
- Wikidata
- Q31066239
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. 1921. The promontory forts of Beare and Bantry. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 51, 1-16, 101-16.