What is recorded here
No visible fort, no stone ring, no broken wall, no cashel remains at the supplied coordinates. The location is an empty hillside, not a hidden or lost fort.
On N-facing slope at foot of Tooreennamna Mountain, commanding view over Ardgroom Harbour. Roughly circular area (25m N-S; 21m E-W) enclosed by ruined wall of large boulders; original facing survives to SE (H 1m; Wth 3.6m). Gap (Wth 1.5m) to E revetted by recumbent slab on each side. (O'Brien 1970, 21).
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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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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