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Downshill
Wicklow, Republic of Ireland ยท Atlas IR0720
Location
- Atlas number
- IR0720 (720)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Wicklow
- Historic county
- Wicklow
- Parish, community, or townland
- Downshill
- Latitude
- 53.12718
- Longitude
- -6.12904
- Altitude
- 372 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 0, SW 1, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 6.43 ha
- Footprint
- 6.66 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- commercial forestry and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1906); Other (1997); Excavation (2007)
Identifiers
- HER
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database WI013-001
- National record
- record WI 013
- Wikidata
- Q31081035
Sources
References
- Grogan, E. and Kilfeather, A. 1997. Archaeological Inventory of County Wicklow. The Stationary Office, Dublin.