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Ballyrobin South
Cork, Republic of Ireland ยท Atlas IR1960
Location
- Atlas number
- IR1960 (1960)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Cork
- Historic county
- Cork
- Parish, community, or townland
- Ballyrobin South
- Latitude
- 51.80911
- Longitude
- -8.09573
- Altitude
- 14 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 0, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.02 ha
- Footprint
- 0.03 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and stone wall
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- south
- Land use
- pasture and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1921); Earthwork Survey (1992)
Identifiers
- HER
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database CO100A002
- National record
- record CO 100
- Wikidata
- Q31067042
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.