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Kinure
Cork, Republic of Ireland ยท Atlas IR0891
Location
- Atlas number
- IR0891 (891)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Cork
- Historic county
- Cork
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kinure
- Latitude
- 51.68821
- Longitude
- -8.42895
- Altitude
- 12 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
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.99 ha
- Footprint
- 0.99 ha
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- south
- Land use
- coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1842); 1st Identified Written Reference (1914); Earthwork Survey (1990)
Identifiers
- HER
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database CO125-019
- National record
- record CO 125
- Wikidata
- Q31066465
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.
- Westropp, T.J. 1914. Fortified headlands and castles on the south coast of Munster. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 32C, 104-105.