Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Promontory fort - inland
Drombrow, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drombrow
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 51.70605, -9.40582
- SMR number
- CO105-078----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
This monument was reported by Seamus Crowley, Mallow Field Club, who described it as a wedge-shaped promontory (32m N-S; 9m E-W at N and 33m E-W at S) on the south bank of the Mealagh River. The N end is raised (7m E-W; 8m N-S) with a deep wide trench on its S side and beyond this a further two bank-and-ditch entrenchments. The entire site is covered by natural woodland.
Nearby in the register
- Country houseunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.