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Ballymacmurragh
Offaly, Republic of Ireland ยท Atlas IR0695
Location
- Atlas number
- IR0695 (695)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Offaly
- Historic county
- Offaly
- Parish, community, or townland
- Ballymacmurragh
- Latitude
- 53.07003
- Longitude
- -7.71923
- Altitude
- 316 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.57 ha
- Footprint
- 0.81 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- rectangular stone structures
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1842); Other (1906); Other (1997)
Identifiers
- HER
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database OF039-012
- National record
- record OF 039
- Wikidata
- Q31081998
Sources
References
- O'Brien, C. and Sweetman, D. 1997. Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly. Department of the Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Dublin.