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Curragh
Cork, Republic of Ireland ยท Atlas IR3060
Location
- Atlas number
- IR3060 (3060)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Cork
- Historic county
- Cork
- Parish, community, or townland
- Curragh
- Latitude
- 51.93965
- Longitude
- -8.23103
- Altitude
- 152 m
Form and condition
- Type
- level-terrain fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.46 ha
- Footprint
- 0.67 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1842); Other (1906); Other (1994)
Identifiers
- HER
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database CO065-061
- National record
- record CO 065
- Wikidata
- Q31067419
Sources
References
- Power, D. 1994. Archaeological Inventory of County Cork, Vol. 2: East and South Cork. The Stationary Office, Dublin.