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Knigh
Tipperary, Republic of Ireland ยท Atlas IR0712
Location
- Atlas number
- IR0712 (712)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Tipperary
- Historic county
- Tipperary
- Parish, community, or townland
- Knigh
- Latitude
- 52.91886
- Longitude
- -8.21157
- Altitude
- 125 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort and multiple enclosure
- Condition
- Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 1, SW 2, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 5.4 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 2.99 ha, 5.4 ha
- Footprint
- 5.4 ha
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1983); Geophysical Survey (2012)
Identifiers
- HER
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database TN014-033002
- National record
- record TN 014
- Wikidata
- Q31083481
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.
- Manning, C. 1983. Prehistoric sites in the neighborhood of Ardcroney. Eile 2, 43 - 45.
- O'Driscoll, J. 2012 Unpublished geophysical survey report: Knigh, Co. Tipperary. UCC Cork, Dept of Archaeology.