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Promontory fort - inland

Oldcourt (Fermoy By.), County Cork, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Promontory fort - inland, Oldcourt, County Cork, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Oldcourt (Fermoy By.)
County
Cork
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Old town of Doneraile (Site of) (1937)
Coordinates
52.22277, -8.59235
SMR number
CO017-084----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1883 · Ireland 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

At junction of Awbeg and Bregoge Rivers, immediately S of Old Court graveyard (CO017-08301-); now part of Doneraile Golf Course. Roughly-rectangular promontory (c. 80m N-S; c. 60m E-W) bounded E->W by steep-sided descent to floor of river valleys; descent on E side has been landscaped and cleared of overgrowth as part of golf course; noticeably steep and overgrown on W side but less so to S. Across neck of promontory two levelled banks visible on aerial photograph (CASAP 1998). Site inspection noted low two low grass-covered undulations crossing fairway of golf course.
This appears to be site of Dún ar aill (Doneraile) as identified by Jones (1902, 232-3); 1937 OS 6-inch map (after Jones: Field Memorandum A/109/140) mark this as 'Old Town of Doneraile (site of)' , though symbol on map slightly misplaced to E. However, Power (1932, 102) locates 'the name-giving dun' on site of 'later castle' (presumably CO017-086---). According to Jones (ibid.) 'in the year 1130 a family of the clan called Deena or Deagha built their doons or forts' on this site; however, Jones gives no reference for this information which must therefore be treated with some caution.

The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.

Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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