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Derrycreeveen (Bear Island)
Cork (Bear Island), Republic of Ireland ยท Atlas IR0896
Location
- Atlas number
- IR0896 (896)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Cork (Bear Island)
- Historic county
- Cork
- Parish, community, or townland
- Derrycreeveen
- Latitude
- 51.62147
- Longitude
- -9.91858
- Altitude
- 10 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
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- west
- Land use
- heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1900); 1st Identified Written Reference (1921); Other (1992)
Identifiers
- HER
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database CO128-003
- National record
- record CO 128
- Wikidata
- Q31119508
Sources
References
- Power, D., Byrne, E., Egan, U., Lane, S., and Sleeman, M. 2009. Archaeological Inventory of County Cork Volume 5. The stationery 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.