What is recorded here

Dunboy’s identity depends on a vanished headland, perhaps lost to the Atlantic, perhaps never properly seen. That uncertainty is not a flaw, but the shape of the place: a fort remembered through absence. Any chamber built there must leave one doorway empty, pointing seaward toward the part that stopped returning.

Though Westropp (1921, 10) considers it 'precarious' to regard any place at Dunboy as a promontory fort, he does follow on to state that 'Pacata Hibernia certainly describes some sort of fortified headland here', suggesting that this was the remains of an earlier fortification. The exact location of this 'fortified headland' is not known. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009

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