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Knockeen
Wicklow, Republic of Ireland ยท Atlas IR0722
Location
- Atlas number
- IR0722 (722)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Wicklow
- Historic county
- Wicklow
- Parish, community, or townland
- Knockeen
- Latitude
- 52.80669
- Longitude
- -6.66241
- Altitude
- 123 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 1, SE 1, SW 2, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 6.22 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 3.14 ha, 6.22 ha
- Footprint
- 6.22 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- 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 Map Depiction (1842); Other (1906); Geophysical Survey (2014)
Identifiers
- HER
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database WI037-018
- National record
- record WI 037
- Wikidata
- Q31081087
Sources
References
- Grogan, E. and Kilfeather, A. 1997. Archaeological Inventory of County Wicklow. The Stationary Office, Dublin.
- O'Driscoll, J. 2014. Unpublished geophysical survey report: Knockeen, Co. Wicklow. UCC Cork, Dept of Archaeology.
- Orpen, G. 1911. Rathgal, Co. Wicklow. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 41, 138 - 150.