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Castle Gale
Limerick, Republic of Ireland ยท Atlas IR0681
Location
- Atlas number
- IR0681 (681)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Limerick
- Historic county
- Limerick
- Parish, community, or townland
- Castle Gale
- Latitude
- 52.29501
- Longitude
- -8.40904
- Altitude
- 302 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 2, SW 2, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 1.24 ha
- Footprint
- 1.6 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and stone wall
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South); Simple Gap (North)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1998); Earthwork Survey (1993-1994)
Identifiers
- HER
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database LI059A001
- National record
- record LI 059
- Wikidata
- Q31071170
Sources
References
- Doody, M. 2008. The Ballyhoura Hills Project. Wordwell, Dublin.