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Laghtea
Tipperary, Republic of Ireland ยท Atlas IR0714
Location
- Atlas number
- IR0714 (714)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Tipperary
- Historic county
- Tipperary
- Parish, community, or townland
- Laghtea
- Latitude
- 52.86471
- Longitude
- -8.39471
- Altitude
- 322 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 0, SW 1, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 7.41 ha
- Footprint
- 7.83 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- heather moorland
- Water source
- well or cistern
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1995); Other (1995)
Identifiers
- HER
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database TN019-047
- National record
- record TN 019
- Wikidata
- Q31083538
Sources
References
- Condit, T. 1995. Hillfort discoveries near Killaloe, Co. Clare. Archaeology Ireland, 34 - 37.