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Brusselstown Ring
Wicklow, Republic of Ireland · Atlas IR0718
Location
- Atlas number
- IR0718 (718)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Wicklow
- Historic county
- Wicklow
- Parish, community, or townland
- Brusselstown
- Latitude
- 52.96295
- Longitude
- -6.61645
- Altitude
- 402 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort and multiple enclosure
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 2, SW 1, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 4
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 4
- Enclosed area
- 32.43 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 4.63 ha, 32.43 ha
- Footprint
- 32.43 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall and rubble
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North); Simple Gap (East); Simple Gap (South); Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- commercial forestry and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- round stone structures and curvilinear platforms
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1842); Other (1906); Other (1992); Other (1997); Other (1998); Other (1960-1969); Other (1973-1977)
Identifiers
- HER
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database WI027-018
- National record
- record WI 027
- Wikidata
- Q31080991
Sources
References
- Condit, T. 1992. Irelands hillfort capital: Baltinglass, Co. Wicklow. Archaeology Ireland, 16 - 20.
- Condit, T. 1998. Observations of the Baltinglass hillfort complex. Wicklow: Archaeology and History, 9 _ 25.
- Corlett, C. and Weaver, M. 2002a. The Liam Price Notebooks: the Placenames, Antiquities and Topography of County Wicklow, I. Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Dublin.
- Corlett, C. and Weaver, M. 2002a. The Liam Price Notebooks: the Placenames, Antiquities and Topography of County Wicklow, II. Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Dublin.
- Grogan, E. and Kilfeather, A. 1997. Archaeological Inventory of County Wicklow. The Stationary Office, Dublin.
- Raftery, B. 1994. Pagan Celtic Ireland. Thames and Hudson, London.