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Ballynacarriga
Cork, Republic of Ireland ยท Atlas IR1970
Location
- Atlas number
- IR1970 (1970)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Cork
- Historic county
- Cork
- Parish, community, or townland
- Ballynacarriga
- Latitude
- 51.58930
- Longitude
- -10.15265
- Altitude
- 36 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 5
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 5, SE 0, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 4
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 83.5 ha
- Footprint
- 84.5 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and stone wall
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- southwest
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- round stone structures
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1842); Earthwork Survey (1992)
Identifiers
- HER
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database CO126-025001
- National record
- record CO 126
- Wikidata
- Q31067283
Sources
References
- Power, D., Byrne, E., Egan, U., Lane, S., and Sleeman, M. 1992. Archaeological Inventory of County Cork Volume 1: West Cork. The stationary Office, Dublin.