Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cliff-edge fort
Corbally (duhallow By.), County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Corbally (duhallow By.)
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1937)
- Coordinates
- 52.19685, -8.88177
- SMR number
- CO023-028001-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In pasture, on N edge of and above steep-sided stream valley. Depicted as penannular raised area (diam. c. 38m) defined by hachured scarp W->SE and by straight-sided cliff face on SW side on 1937 OS 6-inch map. Levelled; arc formed by low rise (max. int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.5m) survives to NW and N. Recorded by Bowman (1934, 416) as levelled fort in Jerh. Linehan's land, 'single-ramparted... diameter was about 30 yards'. Souterrain (CO023-02802-) in interior.
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
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.