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Knocksouna
Limerick, Republic of Ireland ยท Atlas IR0684
Location
- Atlas number
- IR0684 (684)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Limerick
- Historic county
- Limerick
- Parish, community, or townland
- Knocksouna
- Latitude
- 52.40154
- Longitude
- -8.63918
- Altitude
- 103 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort and multiple enclosure
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 2, SW 2, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 2.8 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.44 ha, 2.8 ha
- Footprint
- 2.82 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms
- Investigations
- Other (1998)
Identifiers
- HER
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database LI047-092
- National record
- record LI 047
- Wikidata
- Q31071333
Sources