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Knockadoon (Warren)
Cork, Republic of Ireland ยท Atlas IR1962
Location
- Atlas number
- IR1962 (1962)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Cork
- Historic county
- Cork
- Parish, community, or townland
- Knockadoon (Warren)
- Latitude
- 51.87049
- Longitude
- -7.94839
- Altitude
- 10 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 0, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.06 ha
- Footprint
- 0.1 ha
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- south
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1842); 1st Identified Written Reference (1921); Earthwork Survey (1992)
Identifiers
- HER
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database CO078-033
- National record
- record CO 078
- Wikidata
- Q31067083
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