Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Promontory fort - coastal
Ballytrasna (imokilly By.), County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballytrasna (imokilly By.)
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.82013, -8.03048
- SMR number
- CO089-054----
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Shown on 5 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
Described by Westropp (1914, 107) as a 'long drift-spur between two streams. The neck was only 12 feet wide and the tower-like platform of hard earth rose 10 or 12 feet above it, with almost perpendicular sides, revetted with good masonry....The whole was about 35 feet wide and 50 feet long'. Site has suffered from severe erosion and remains as free-standing 'island' (c. 16m N-S; c. 22m E-W). Bank (H 1m) visible in section on N landward side with possible fosse on S (seaward) side and possible 2nd bank on S side of this.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). 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
- Promontory fort - coastalunder 1 mi
- Prehistoric site - lithic scatterunder 1 mi
- House - vernacular houseunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.