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Knocknashee
Sligo, Republic of Ireland ยท Atlas IR0706
Location
- Atlas number
- IR0706 (706)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Sligo
- Historic county
- Sligo
- Parish, community, or townland
- Knocknashee
- Latitude
- 54.11789
- Longitude
- -8.67870
- Altitude
- 276 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort and multiple enclosure
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 2, SW 1, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 21.5 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 19.53 ha, 21.5 ha
- Footprint
- 21.5 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Entrance forms
- Passage-way/Corridor (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- round stone structures and quarry hollows
- Investigations
- Other (1990); Other (1991); Other (2005)
Identifiers
- HER
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database SL032-013001
- National record
- record SL 032
- Wikidata
- Q31074851
Sources
References
- Condit, T., Gibbons, M., Timoney, M.1991. Hillforts in Sligo and Leitrim, Emania, 59 - 62.
- Egan, U., Byrne, E. and Sleeman, M. 2005. Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo. Dublin stationary Office.