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Lahard
Cork, Republic of Ireland ยท Atlas IR0892
Location
- Atlas number
- IR0892 (892)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Cork
- Historic county
- Cork
- Parish, community, or townland
- Lahard
- Latitude
- 51.78679
- Longitude
- -8.16292
- Altitude
- 9 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 0, NW 3
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.27 ha
- Footprint
- 0.49 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and stone wall
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- south
- Land use
- pasture
- Water source
- spring
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1842); 1st Identified Written Reference (1914); Other (1944); Earthwork Survey (1984)
Identifiers
- HER
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database CO100-017002
- National record
- record CO 100
- Wikidata
- Q31066481
Sources
References
- O'Kelly, M.J. 1945. Some prehistoric monuments of Imokilly. Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society 50, 10-23.
- 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.