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Oldcourt
Cork, Republic of Ireland ยท Atlas IR1055
Location
- Atlas number
- IR1055 (1055)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Cork
- Historic county
- Cork
- Parish, community, or townland
- Oldcourt
- Latitude
- 52.22277
- Longitude
- -8.59235
- Altitude
- 75 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 0, SW 0, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.5 ha
- Footprint
- 1.5 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- south
- Land use
- parkland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (2000)
Identifiers
- HER
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database CO017-084
- National record
- record CO 017
- Wikidata
- Q31066894
Sources
References
- Power, D. 2000. Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork. The Stationary Office, Dublin.