Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Promontory fort - coastal
Coolcoulaghta, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Coolcoulaghta
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1901)
- Coordinates
- 51.60663, -9.54161
- SMR number
- CO130-033----
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 irregular area (L 17m; Wth 7.4m) projecting W into Dunmanus Bay. Defended by steep-sided earthen bank (H 4.3m) with outer fosse (D 1.7m); collapsing into sea to S, with outer fosse (D 1.7m). Interior overgrown and being rapidly eroded by sea, at S side in particular (site was much less eroded when inspected by Westropp (1921a, 107).
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
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Standing stone - pairunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.