
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.
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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