Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Promontory fort - coastal
Corporation Lands, County Wicklow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Corporation Lands
- County
- Wicklow
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.98104, -6.03139
- SMR number
- WI025-012012-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1799 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In grassland. 'Black Castle' (WI025-013----) which is located on a promontory that is cut off from the mainland by a deep rock-cut fosse may be on the site of an earlier promontory fort (Grogan and Kilfeather 1997, 181). Casey (2001, 103) further noted an earthen rampart, enclosing a roughly subrectangular area and possibly predating the castle, c. 55m to the W of the promontory. A number of modern gaps cut through the bank and one c. 12m from the N cliff edge has evidence of a collapsed and grassed-over hut site within it. A shallow wide external fosse (Wth 7m) and an outer bank were also intermittently visible close to the N cliff edge.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 6 January 2015
References
Grogan, E. and Kilfeather, A. (comp). 1997 Archaeological inventory of County Wicklow. Dublin. Stationery Office.
Casey, M. 2001 The coastal promontory forts of Ireland: interim report for the Heritage Council. Unpublished specialist report, National Monuments Service, Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht.
Nearby in the register
- Castle - Anglo-Norman masonry castleunder 1 mi
- Prehistoric site - lithic scatterunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Promontory fort - coastalunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.