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Hughstown
Kildare, Republic of Ireland · Atlas IR0673
Location
- Atlas number
- IR0673 (673)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Kildare
- Historic county
- Kildare
- Parish, community, or townland
- Hughstown
- Latitude
- 52.94455
- Longitude
- -6.75000
- Altitude
- 298 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort and multiple enclosure
- Condition
- Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 5
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 4.55 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 3.58 ha, 4.55 ha
- Footprint
- 8.22 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- palisade
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- commercial forestry and pasture
- Water source
- pool
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery
- Investigations
- Geophysical Survey (2012); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1960-1969); LiDAR Survey (2001-2017)
Identifiers
- HER
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database KD038-025001
- National record
- record KD 038
- Wikidata
- Q31069595
Sources
References
- Condit, C. 1992. Irelands hillfort capital: Baltinglass, Co. Wicklow. Archaeology Ireland, Vol. 6 (3), 16 _ 20.
- Condit, C. 1998. Observations of the Baltinglass hillfort complex. In Corlett, C. and OSullivan, A. Wicklow Archaeology and History, Vol. 1, 9 _ 25.
- O'Driscoll, J. 2012. Unpublished Geophysical Survey Report: Hughstown Hillfort, Co. Kildare. UCC Cork, Dept of Archaeology.