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Toor More
Kilkenny, Republic of Ireland · Atlas IR0677
Location
- Atlas number
- IR0677 (677)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Kilkenny
- Historic county
- Kilkenny
- Parish, community, or townland
- Toor More
- Latitude
- 52.78793
- Longitude
- -7.29501
- Altitude
- 253 m
Form and condition
- Type
- multiple enclosure
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 3
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 8.65 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 1.72 ha, 8.65 ha
- Footprint
- 8.94 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank and palisade
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North); Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and ridge
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- commercial forestry, pasture, and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- 1200–800 BC
- Dating evidence
- C14
- Dating reliability
- A - High
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- environmental material
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1905); Geophysical Survey (2013); Excavation (2013)
Identifiers
- HER
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database KK010-007001
- National record
- record KK 010
- Wikidata
- Q31077825
Sources
References
- Condit, T. and Gibbson, M. 1988. Two 'little known' hillforts in Co. Kilkenny. Decies (37), 47 - 54.
- Carrigan, Rev. W. 1905. The history and antiquities of the diocese of Ossory. Vol. 2. Kilkenny.
- O'Brien, W. 2013. Unpublished excavation report: Toor More, Co. Kilkenny. UCC Cork, Dept of Archaeology.
- O'Driscoll, J. 2013. Unpublished geophysical survey report: Toor More, Co. Kilkenny. UCC Cork, Dept of Archaeology.