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Slievemore (Sherkin Island)
Cork (Sherkin Island), Republic of Ireland ยท Atlas IR0898
Location
- Atlas number
- IR0898 (898)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Cork (Sherkin Island)
- Historic county
- Cork
- Parish, community, or townland
- Slievemore
- Latitude
- 51.46274
- Longitude
- -9.43786
- Altitude
- 3 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
- 0.1 ha
- Footprint
- 0.1 ha
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1902); Earthwork Survey (1987)
Identifiers
- HER
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database CO153-001001
- National record
- record CO 153
- Wikidata
- Q31119574
Sources
References
- Power, D., Byrne, E., Egan, U., Lane, S., and Sleeman, M. 1992. Archaeological Inventory of County Cork Volume 1: West Cork, 126-130. The stationary Office, Dublin.