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Carrownrush
Sligo, Republic of Ireland ยท Atlas IR0704
Location
- Atlas number
- IR0704 (704)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Sligo
- Historic county
- Sligo
- Parish, community, or townland
- Carrownrush
- Latitude
- 54.26110
- Longitude
- -8.87971
- Altitude
- 82 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort and multiple enclosure
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 1.09 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.23 ha, 1.09 ha
- Footprint
- 1.56 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South west); Simple Gap (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1842); Earthwork Survey (1906)
Identifiers
- HER
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database SL012-008001
- National record
- record SL 012
- Wikidata
- Q31074619
Sources