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Killeagh
Cork, Republic of Ireland ยท Atlas IR0881
Location
- Atlas number
- IR0881 (881)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Cork
- Historic county
- Cork
- Parish, community, or townland
- Killeagh
- Latitude
- 51.70397
- Longitude
- -8.41480
- Altitude
- 11 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.8 ha
- Footprint
- 1.48 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- southeast
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Earthwork Survey (1990)
Identifiers
- HER
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database CO112-052
- National record
- record CO 112
- Wikidata
- Q31066429
Sources
References
- Power, D., Byrne, E., Egan, U., Lane, S., and Sleeman, M. 1994. Archaeological Inventory of County Cork Volume 2: East and South Cork, 64-5. The stationary Office, Dublin.