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Knockanacuig
Kerry, Republic of Ireland · Atlas IR0671
Location
- Atlas number
- IR0671 (671)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Kerry
- Historic county
- Kerry
- Parish, community, or townland
- Knockanacuig
- Latitude
- 52.27087
- Longitude
- -9.72977
- Altitude
- 30 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 1.67 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.16 ha, 1.67 ha
- Footprint
- 1.67 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and built-up land
Dating
- Dating
- 400 BC–AD 50 and AD 400–800
- Dating evidence
- C14
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- pits
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1842); Excavation (2006)
Identifiers
- HER
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database KE029-112
- National record
- record KE 029
- Wikidata
- Q31082199
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 Unpublished PhD Thesis, University College Cork, Ireland.
- Dunne, L. and Bartlett, T. 2009. Excavations at Knockanacuig/Lohercannan, Co. Kerry. In Bennett, I. (ed) Excavations Bulletin 2006. Wordwell, Dublin.