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Mountfortesque
Meath, Republic of Ireland · Atlas IR0693
Location
- Atlas number
- IR0693 (693)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Meath
- Historic county
- Meath
- Parish, community, or townland
- Mountfortesque
- Latitude
- 53.76111
- Longitude
- -6.57747
- Altitude
- 213 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 1.97 ha
- Footprint
- 2.29 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- ridge and spur
- Aspect
- south
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1842); Other (1906); 1st Identified Written Reference (1956)
Identifiers
- HER
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database ME013-012001
- National record
- record ME 013
- Wikidata
- Q31081870
Sources
References
- Ó Rord_in, S. 1956. Small hill-fort and tumulus on Mountfortesque. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 86. 106 _ 107.
- Sweetman, D. 1987. Archaeological Inventory of County Meath. The Stationary Office, Dublin.