Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Promontory fort - coastal
Kinure, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kinure
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Little Doon (1935)
- Coordinates
- 51.68825, -8.42895
- SMR number
- CO125-019----
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
Subrectangular piece of land (c. 120m NE-SW x c. 70m NW-SE) projecting SE into Atlantic. Joined to mainland by narrow neck (L 5m; max. Wth 2m); section visible due to erosion suggests raised to level of promontory and mainland. Interior slopes down to S; ground collapsed immediately W of entrance. According to Westropp (1914, 108) 'clear foundations of a house just inside to the right (west) of the entrance, and what is possibly another foundation to the left'.
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
- Buildingunder 1 mi
- Country houseunder 1 mi
- Graveyard1 mi
- Church1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.