Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Promontory fort - coastal
Ballyrobin South, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyrobin South
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.80911, -8.09548
- SMR number
- CO100A002----
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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
Noted by Westropp (1921, 109) as a 'fenced platform, 3ft. higher than the field and about 40ft. to 50ft. either way'. Sub-rectangular area (11m N-S; 8.5m E-W) to W of stream gully, above clay cliff; pathway on W side down to rockey shore; earthen bank (int. H 0.6m; Wth 1.4m) running E-W, defines area on landward side (N). Bank stone faced on N side, with shallow depression along base.
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Prehistoric site - lithic scatterunder 1 mi
- Prehistoric site - lithic scatterunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.