Westropp 1920 — promontory forts and folk-traditions of the Beare-and-Bantry districts (JRSAI)

Summary

T. J. Westropp's 1920 *Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland* article on the **promontory forts and associated folk-traditions of the Beare and Bantry districts** (the Murphys' homeland). Twenty pages of archaeological- topographic survey paired with oral-tradition material — the scholarly counterpart to O'Halloran 1916 and T. D. Sullivan. Useful for the Beara-prehistoric layer in any chapter that opens with the deep landscape. Westropp (1860-1922) was one of the leading antiquarians of early-20th-c. Ireland; this is one of his late papers.

Also mentioned

• Thomas Johnson Westropp

  Irish antiquary (1860-1922); RSAI member. Not family.

Places

• Beara Peninsula (primary)
• West Cork (primary)
• County Cork (context)

Themes

• irish_archaeology
• irish_language_and_culture
• west_cork

Story threads

• Berehaven Murphys

Tags

• context_setting
• book_chapter_material

Related sources

• 1916 — O'Halloran, W. — *Early Irish History and Antiquities, and the History of West Cork* — W. O'Halloran's 1916 history of West Cork — the standard secondary source for Beara antiquities, Morty Oge/Puxley, and the regional past
• 1873-07-01 — Archaeologia Cambrensis, p.286 — INSCRIBED STONES OF WALES.