Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Promontory fort - coastal
Dromclogh, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dromclogh
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated (1944)
- Coordinates
- 51.66529, -9.50857
- SMR number
- CO118-014----
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
Small rectangular area barely projecting W into Bantry Bay. Westropp (1921,103) describes the neck 'carved into a narrow gangway with a fosse, 6 ft to 8 ft deep and about 9 ft wide below, at the landward end. The platform of the fort is level, 15 ft to 20 ft over the neck'. He says this platform was stone faced. Defences and interior heavily eroded since then. Outer defences have disappeared. Interior platform has diminished in size; no stone facing visible.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). 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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.