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Glanbane
Kerry, Republic of Ireland · Atlas IR0670
Location
- Atlas number
- IR0670 (670)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Kerry
- Historic county
- Kerry
- Parish, community, or townland
- Glanbane
- Latitude
- 52.21778
- Longitude
- -9.57635
- Altitude
- 86 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort and multiple enclosure
- Condition
- Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 6.3 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 4.15 ha, 6.3 ha
- Footprint
- 6.32 ha
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Out-turned (North)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- 1200–800 BC
- Dating evidence
- C14
- Dating reliability
- A - High
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Geophysical Survey (2012); Excavation (2012)
Identifiers
- HER
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database KE039-065
- National record
- record KE 039
- Wikidata
- Q31082175
Sources
References
- Connelly, M. 2008. The Prehistoric Settlement of the Lee Valley, Tralee, Co. Kerry: A Landscape Perspective. Unpublished PhD Thesis, University College Cork, Ireland.
- O'Brien, W. 2012. Unpublished Excavation Report: Glanbane Hillfort, Co. Kerry. UCC Cork, Dept of Archaeology.
- O'Driscoll, J. 2012. Unpublished Geophysical Survey Report: Glanbane Hillfort, Co. Kerry. UCC Cork, Dept of Archaeology.