Satellite Imagery
Satellite Imagery
HER: Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database CO035-049001 (None)
NMR: CO 035 (None)
SM: None
NGR: None
X: 580624 Y: 595936 (IRENET95)
Oval contour fort of approximately 5.4ha in commanding position, overlooking the Blackwater and Bride river valleys at the eastern edge of the Nagle Mountains. Bivallate for the entire circuit with additional earthworks at possible original entrance to the WNW. Interior heavily overgrown. A large cairn is positioned at the highest point in the interior. A Food Vessel burial was identified upon the partial removal of the stones in 1832 (Borlase 1897, 13). No evidence for other internal features on the surface. The inner enclosing elements survive well throughout the majority of its circuit. It comprises a dump stone bank, maximum 1.6m in height. The outer enclosing feature is best preserved to the WSW and is of similar composition. The additional earthworks at the WNW entrance comprises 2 - 3 earthen banks and corresponding external ditches.
Citizen Science: ✗
Reliability of Data: Confirmed
Reliability of Interpretation: Confirmed
X: -922049 Y: 6820941 (EPSG: 3857)
Longitude: -8.282904532974314 Latitude: 52.11497251392209 (EPSG:4326)
Country: Republic of Ireland; None
Current County or Unitary Authority: Cork
Historic County: Cork
Current Parish/Community/Council/Townland: Corrin Hill
The outer enclosing elements are partially destroyed.
| Extant | ✓ |
| Cropmark | ✗ |
| Likely Destroyed | ✓ |
Commercial forestry encroaches on the N and E sections of the outer enclosing elements.
| Woodland | ✗ |
| Commercial Forestry Plantation | ✓ |
| Parkland | ✗ |
| Pasture (Grazing) | ✗ |
| Arable | ✗ |
| Scrub/Bracken | ✓ |
| Bare Outcrop | ✗ |
| Heather/Moorland | ✗ |
| Heath | ✗ |
| Built-up | ✗ |
| Coastal Grassland | ✗ |
| Other | ✗ |
An oval shaped hillfort following the contours of the hilltop is located on the E spur of the Nagle Mountains. It surrounds domed summit and offers panoramic views in all directions. The entrance is positioned on the most accessible approach at the WNW, where the slope is gradual and less sever. Carn Tighernagh overlooks the Blackwater and Bride river valleys to the east and north.
| Contour Fort | ✓ |
| Partial Contour Fort | ✗ |
| Promontory Fort | ✗ |
| Hillslope Fort | ✗ |
| Level Terrain Fort | ✗ |
| Marsh Fort | ✗ |
| Multiple Enclosure Fort | ✓ |
| Hilltop | ✓ |
| Coastal Promontory | ✗ |
| Inland Promontory | ✗ |
| Valley Bottom | ✗ |
| Knoll/Hillock/Outcrop | ✗ |
| Ridge | ✓ |
| Cliff/Plateau-edge/Scarp | ✗ |
| Hillslope | ✗ |
| Lowland | ✗ |
| Spur | ✗ |
Dominant Topographic Feature: Hill-spur
| North | ✗ |
| Northeast | ✗ |
| East | ✗ |
| Southeast | ✗ |
| South | ✗ |
| Southwest | ✗ |
| West | ✗ |
| Northwest | ✗ |
| Level | ✓ |
Altitude: 219.0m
Cut by townland boundary of Condons and Clongibbon.
Boundary Type: Parish/Townland
No dating evidence.
Reliability: D - None
| Pre 1200BC | ✗ |
| 1200BC - 800BC | ✗ |
| 800BC - 400BC | ✗ |
| 400BC - AD50 | ✗ |
| AD50 - AD400 | ✗ |
| AD400 - AD 800 | ✗ |
| Post AD800 | ✗ |
| Unknown | ✓ |
| Pre Hillfort: | Cairn positioned at the center of the hillfort at highest point. Removal of some of the stones at the summit of the cairn revealed a food vessel burial. |
| Post Hillfort: | None |
Stone was taken from the central cairn in the late 1832 and a Food Vessel burial was discovered (Borlase 1897, 13). Earthwork survey by The Discovery Programme in 2008.
| Other (1832): | Discovery of Food Vessel burial in central cairn. |
| Other (1998): | Visited by Hillfort Study Group |
| Earthwork Survey (2008): | Doody (2008) |
Central cairn with Food Vessel burial (Borlase 1897, 13). No other features visible on the surface. Modern stone cross erected in 1958.
None
| None | ✓ |
| Spring | ✗ |
| Stream | ✗ |
| Pool | ✗ |
| Flush | ✗ |
| Well | ✗ |
| Other | ✗ |
Central cairn
| No Known Features | ✗ |
| Round Stone Structures | ✗ |
| Rectangular Stone Structures | ✗ |
| Curvilinear Platforms | ✗ |
| Other Roundhouse Evidence | ✗ |
| Pits | ✗ |
| Quarry Hollows | ✗ |
| Other | ✓ |
None
| No Known Excavation | ✓ |
| Pits | ✗ |
| Postholes | ✗ |
| Roundhouses | ✗ |
| Rectangular Structures | ✗ |
| Roads/Tracks | ✗ |
| Quarry Hollows | ✗ |
| Other | ✗ |
| Nothing Found | ✗ |
None
| No Known Geophysics | ✓ |
| Pits | ✗ |
| Roundhouses | ✗ |
| Rectangular Structures | ✗ |
| Roads/Tracks | ✗ |
| Quarry Hollows | ✗ |
| Other | ✗ |
| Nothing Found | ✗ |
Food Vessel burial
| No Known Finds | ✗ |
| Pottery | ✓ |
| Metal | ✗ |
| Metalworking | ✗ |
| Human Bones | ✓ |
| Animal Bones | ✗ |
| Lithics | ✗ |
| Environmental | ✗ |
| Other | ✗ |
NO APPARENT FEATURES
| APs Not Checked | ✗ |
| None | ✓ |
| Roundhouses | ✗ |
| Rectangular Structures | ✗ |
| Pits | ✗ |
| Postholes | ✗ |
| Roads/Tracks | ✗ |
| Other | ✗ |
Partially in-turned entrance to WNW, comprising simple break in the inner and outer enclosing elements. A series of up to 3 banks and ditches abut the outer enclosing element around this entrance and may be an attempt enhance this entrance area. Two other small, simple gaps in the inner enclosing elements are apparent to the SE and SSE.
| 4: | None |
| 2: | None |
Guard Chambers: ✗
Chevaux de Frise: ✗
| 1. In-turned (North west): | Partially in-turned entrance to the WNW comprising a simple break in the inner and outer enclosing elements. A series of up to 3 earthen banks and ditches surround the entrance forming additional enclosing elements. |
| 2. Simple Gap (South east): | A simple break in SE of inner enclosing element. |
| 3. Simple Gap (South east): | A simple break in SSE of inner enclosing element. |
Inner and outer enclosing elements comprise stone rubble banks 7.5m maximum width and 1.6m in maximum height. There is evidence for exterior ditch features. The enclosing features are separated by 10 - 19m. The inner enclosing feature is well preserved through much of its circuit, however, the outer example is heavily disturbed by forestry and survives best at the WSW. At the WNW, up to 3 earthen bank and ditch features abut the outer enclosing element and surround a possible original entrance. The hillfort encloses an area of 3.21ha and has a total site footprint of 5.38ha.
| Area 1: | 3.21ha. |
| Area 2: | 5.38ha. |
| Total: | 5.38ha. |
Total Footprint Area: 5.38ha.
None
| ✗ | None |
| ✗ | The inner enclosing element is complete. the outer enclosing element is destroyed in placed but likely formed a complete circuit. Up to three further enclosing elements are apparent to the WNW and are likely related to a possible original entrance here. |
| NE Quadrant: | 1 |
| SE Quadrant: | 2 |
| SW Quadrant: | 2 |
| NW Quadrant: | 5 |
| Total: | 5 |
| Partial Univallate | ✓ |
| Univallate | ✗ |
| Partial Bivallate | ✓ |
| Bivallate | ✗ |
| Partial Multivallate | ✓ |
| Multivallate | ✗ |
| Unknown | ✗ |
| Partial Univallate | ✗ |
| Univallate | ✓ |
| Partial Bivallate | ✗ |
| Bivallate | ✗ |
| Partial Multivallate | ✗ |
| Multivallate | ✗ |
None
| None | ✗ |
| Earthen Bank | ✓ |
| Stone Wall | ✗ |
| Rubble | ✓ |
| Wall-walk | ✗ |
| Evidence of Timber | ✗ |
| Vitrification | ✗ |
| Other Burning | ✗ |
| Palisade | ✗ |
| Counter Scarp Bank | ✗ |
| Berm | ✗ |
| Unfinished | ✗ |
| Other | ✗ |
None
| None | ✗ |
| Earthen Bank | ✗ |
| Stone Wall | ✗ |
| Murus Duplex | ✗ |
| Timber-framed | ✗ |
| Timber-laced | ✗ |
| Vitrification | ✗ |
| Other Burning | ✗ |
| Palisade | ✗ |
| Counter Scarp Bank | ✗ |
| Berm | ✗ |
| Unfinished | ✗ |
| No Known Excavation | ✓ |
| Other | ✗ |
| ✗ | None |
| ✓ | Two possible ditches may be related to the inner and outer enclosing elements. A further three ditches are related to the earthen bansk to the WNW. |
Number of Ditches: 5
| ✗ | None |
Borlase, P. 1897, 13
Doody, M. 2008. The Ballyhoura Hills Project. Wordwell, Dublin.
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