Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Promontory fort - coastal
Gouladoo, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gouladoo
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated (1901)
- Coordinates
- 51.61749, -9.68268
- SMR number
- CO129-001----
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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
Irregular area projecting N into Bantry Bay; isolated from mainland by natural sea arch (Wth 5.4m). Westropp (1921, 105) recorded defences on landward side of arch: firstly "a hollow or fosse", then dry stone walling foundations (12ft thick), inside of which a square terraced area measured "80ft each way" and enclosed by a "fence about 6ft thick". Stone wall (Wth 0.8m) runs along line of wall noted by Westropp but no fosse now evident on outside. Interior terraced area is as described by Westropp but only traces of earthen bank remain on NE and NW sides. Interior slopes down steeply to N.
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
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Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Burial ground1 mi
- Enclosure2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.