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Ballymackean
Cork, Republic of Ireland ยท Atlas IR1972
Location
- Atlas number
- IR1972 (1972)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Cork
- Historic county
- Cork
- Parish, community, or townland
- Ballymackean
- Latitude
- 51.62784
- Longitude
- -8.52985
- 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 0, SE 0, SW 1, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.15 ha
- Footprint
- 0.65 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- east
- Land use
- scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- rectangular stone structures
Identifiers
- HER
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database CO137A002
- National record
- record CO 137
- Wikidata
- Q31067354
Sources