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Kill Hill
Kildare, Republic of Ireland ยท Atlas IR0674
Location
- Atlas number
- IR0674 (674)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Kildare
- Historic county
- Kildare
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kill Hill
- Latitude
- 53.24758
- Longitude
- -6.57669
- Altitude
- 153 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort and multiple enclosure
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Number of ditches
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 26.26 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 1.44 ha, 10.11 ha, 26.26 ha
- Footprint
- 26.26 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- west
- Land use
- pasture and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- quarry hollows
- Investigations
- LiDAR Survey (2001-2017)
Identifiers
- HER
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database KD020-001
- National record
- record KD 020
- Wikidata
- Q31069638
Sources