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Downmacpatrick (Old Head)
Cork, Republic of Ireland · Atlas IR0901
Location
- Atlas number
- IR0901 (901)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Cork
- Historic county
- Cork
- Parish, community, or townland
- Downmacpatrick
- Latitude
- 51.61049
- Longitude
- -8.53678
- Altitude
- 50 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 81.2 ha
- Footprint
- 84 ha
- Enclosing works, excavated
- stone wall
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- parkland and built-up land
Dating
- Dating
- after AD 800
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual and C14
- Dating reliability
- C - Low
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery, animal bones, and environmental material
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1840); 1st Identified Written Reference (1939); Earthwork Survey (1983); Earthwork Survey (1991); Geophysical Survey (1995); Excavation (1996)
Identifiers
- HER
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database CO137A001001
- National record
- record CO 137
- Wikidata
- Q31066699
Sources
References
- Cleary, R.M 2001. Old Head, Kinsale, Co. Cork. Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society 106, 1-20.
- Hurley, M. 2012. Archaeological Assessment for the relocation of hole 13 and all associated site works at Old Head Golf Links, Downmacpatrick, Old head, Kinsale, Co. Cork. Unpublished report submitted to Dept of Arts, Heritage and Gaeltacht.
- O'Rahilly, T.F. 1939. Dñn Cermna. Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society 28, 111-12.
- 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.