Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Promontory fort - coastal
Cloonaghlin West, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonaghlin West
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.62813, -9.82048
- SMR number
- CO128-037----
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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 headland (L c. 30m), overgrown by trees and bushes, projecting SE into Bantry Bay. The remains of a fosse (Wth c. 1.5m; D 0.3m; L c. 15m) extend across the neck of the headland. According to local information, the promontory, known as Dúinín, is being eroded by the sea along its NW and NE sides, where boulder clay is exposed. (O'Sullivan 1992, 53)
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Batteryunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.