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Peel Castle
Glenfaba, Isle of Man ยท Atlas IOM3231
Location
- Atlas number
- IOM3231 (3231)
- Country
- Isle of Man
- Current county or unitary authority
- Glenfaba
- Historic county
- Glenfaba
- Parish, community, or townland
- Peel
- National Grid reference
- SC 242 846
- Latitude
- 54.22732
- Longitude
- -4.69845
- Altitude
- 15 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Likely destroyed
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ditches
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- built-up land
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1869); Excavation (1929); Excavation (1947); Other (2015); Excavation (1982-1988)
Identifiers
- HER
- Isle of Man 1066
- National record
- record SC28 SW 1; monument 30473
- Wikidata
- Q31118312
Sources
References
- Chiverrell, R. and Thomas, G. (eds) 2006. A new history of the Isle of Man, Vol I, The evolution of the natural landscape, Liverpool: Liverpool University Press.
- Cowley, C.H. 1935-37. Excavations of Peel Castle 1929, Proc IOM Nat Hist Antiq Soc, 4, 2, 165-74.
- Freke, D. 2002. Excavations on St Patrick's Isle Peel, Isle of Man, 1982-88, prehistoric, medieval and later, Liverpool: Liverpool University Press.