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Glenphuca
Cork, Republic of Ireland ยท Atlas IR0914
Location
- Atlas number
- IR0914 (914)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Cork
- Historic county
- Cork
- Parish, community, or townland
- Glenphuca
- Latitude
- 51.97148
- Longitude
- -8.07600
- Altitude
- 154 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.49 ha
- Footprint
- 0.67 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1842); Earthwork Survey (1906); Other (1994)
Identifiers
- HER
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database CO066-010001
- National record
- record CO 066
- Wikidata
- Q31066783
Sources
References
- O'Kelly, M. 1945. Some prehistoric monuments of Imokilly. Journal of the Cork Archaeological Society, 50, 10 - 23.
- Power, D. 1994. Archaeological Inventory of County Cork, Vol. 2: East and South Cork. The Stationary Office, Dublin.