Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Promontory fort - coastal
Dunbeacon, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dunbeacon
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Doona Fort (1901)
- Coordinates
- 51.59810, -9.58030
- SMR number
- CO130-024001-
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 oval area (23.6m N-S; 13m E-W) barely projecting N into Dunmanus Bay. Neck defended by earthen bank (H 5.2m) with external fosse (D 2.65m). Westropp (1915, 283) noted a dry stone revetment to bank which is no longer visible. Bank and fosse crossed by causeway (Wth 2m) to S. Interior shown as circular area on OS 6-inch map (1842); now reduced in size to less than half that area. Westropp (1915, 284) noted collapsed souterrain (CO130-024002-) 'close to the dangerous edge'.
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
- Middenunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Promontory fort - coastalunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.