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Rathcoran
Wicklow, Republic of Ireland · Atlas IR0724
Location
- Atlas number
- IR0724 (724)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Wicklow
- Historic county
- Wicklow
- Parish, community, or townland
- Coolinarrig Upper
- Latitude
- 52.94784
- Longitude
- -6.68437
- Altitude
- 370 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort and multiple enclosure
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 16
- Enclosed area
- 9.61 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 7.03 ha, 9.61 ha
- Footprint
- 10.06 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and unfinished work
- Also recorded
- gang working
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- 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); Earthwork Survey (1906); Other (1992); Other (1997); Other (1998); Geophysical Survey (2012); LiDAR Survey (2012); Other (2014); Other (1960-1969); Other (1973-1977)
Identifiers
- HER
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database WI027-026001
- National record
- record WI 027
- Wikidata
- Q31081135
Sources
References
- Condit, T. 1992. Irelands hillfort capital: Baltinglass, Co. Wicklow. Archaeology Ireland, 6 (3), 16 _ 20.
- Condit, T. 1998. Observations of the Baltinglass hillfort complex. Wicklow: Archaeology and History, 1, 9 _ 25.
- Grogan, E. and Kilfeather, A. 1997. Archaeological Inventory of County Wicklow. The Stationary Office, Dublin.
- O'Driscoll, J. 2012. Unpublished geophysical survey report: Rathcoran, Co. Wicklow. UCC Cork, Dept of Archaeology.
- O'Driscoll, J. 2014. Unpublished GPS survey report: Rathcoran, Co. Wicklow. UCC Cork, Dept of Archaeology.
- Walshe, P. 1941. The excavation of a burial cairn on Baltinglass Hill, Co. Wicklow. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, 46, 221 _ 236.
- Waddell, J. 1998. The Prehistoric Archaeology of Ireland, 1st edn. Wordwell, Dublin.