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Loughane Beg
Cork, Republic of Ireland ยท Atlas IR0897
Location
- Atlas number
- IR0897 (897)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Cork
- Historic county
- Cork
- Parish, community, or townland
- Loughane Beg
- Latitude
- 51.59376
- Longitude
- -10.05284
- Altitude
- 9 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
- Enclosed area
- 0.71 ha
- Footprint
- 1.21 ha
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- scrub or bracken and coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1904); 1st Identified Written Reference (1921); Earthwork Survey (1985)
Identifiers
- HER
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database CO127-024
- National record
- record CO 127
- Wikidata
- Q31066607
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. 1921. The promontory forts of Beare and Bantry. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 51, 1-16, 101-16.