Reen, promontory fort in County Cork

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What is recorded here

Sub-rectangular promontory (2km NE-SW; 550m NW-SE) extends SW to Crow Head. Narrower neck (Wth 200m) on landward side defended by five earthen banks with intervening fosses. Bank one (int. H 1.6m) and bank two are substantial; bank three is low (H 0.7m); bank four and five are similar to bank three only extend from S side to entrance, a distance of 84m. Bank two stone-faced externallly; less substantial from entrance to N side. Entrance (Wth 3m) with causeways. Interior consists of undulating moorland broken by some rock outcrop. Disused field boundaries and anomalous scatter of stonesnoted on N side of promontory. According to local information, turf cut here up to recently.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CO126-025001

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