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Garrangrena Lower
Tipperary, Republic of Ireland ยท Atlas IR0710
Location
- Atlas number
- IR0710 (710)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Tipperary
- Historic county
- Tipperary
- Parish, community, or townland
- Garrangrena Lower
- Latitude
- 52.78084
- Longitude
- -7.98962
- Altitude
- 315 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 1.78 ha
- Footprint
- 2.06 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 and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1906)
Identifiers
- HER
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database TN028-070001
- National record
- record TN 028
- Wikidata
- Q31083436
Sources
References
- Farrelly, J. and O'Brien, C. 2002. Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Volume 1: North Tipperary. Department of the Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht.