Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Promontory fort - coastal
Cloghfune, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloghfune
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Dooneen Point (1904)
- Coordinates
- 51.62102, -10.08183
- SMR number
- CO127-001001-
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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 projecting NE into Ballydonegan Bay. Slight neck (Wth 30m) defended by earthen bank (H 3.85m) and fosse (D 2.1m) which has been levelled for 11m from cliff-edge to N. Westropp (1921, 6) notes bank faced with "fairly large slabs"; these no longer visible. Interior slopes down steeply to N and S; enclosed by field fenced (not noted by Westropp). Possible souterrain (CO127-001002-) inside bank to SE.
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
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Promontory fort - coastalunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.