What is recorded here
Small subrectangular area projecting W into Roaringwater Bay from Sherkin Island. Defended at neck by earthen bank (H 3.3m) and fosse (D 2.4m). Interior level and eroding along edges. Casey (2002, 95) recorded a very indistinct hut site (diam. 3.5m) (CO149-015001-), centrally placed, close to the W extremity of the promontory. Updated by: Olive Alcock
Date of revised upload: 25 February 2015
From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CO149-015
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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- Colin Park, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Jbuck78, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Podstawko, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 4.0
- Theorlafitz, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- nick macneill, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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