Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Promontory fort - coastal
Allihies, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Allihies
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.64835, -10.05655
- SMR number
- CO114-022004-
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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
On a rocky promontory, jutting W into the sea, with tall cliffs on its S, W and N sides. This promontory is named Dooneen on the 1897-1909 OS 6-inch map and is still known locally as such. The Doon [Dún] element in the name suggests that there may have been a promontory fort here. The promontory and its environs was mined for copper in the early 19th century and any traces of the fort would have been destroyed at that time. An abandoned mineshaft and mining waste occupy the E end of the promontory.
The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009).
Date of upload: 22 December 2009
Nearby in the register
- Industrial chimneyunder 1 mi
- Mining complexunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Penitential stationunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.