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Rathnagree
Wicklow, Republic of Ireland · Atlas IR0725
Location
- Atlas number
- IR0725 (725)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Wicklow
- Historic county
- Wicklow
- Parish, community, or townland
- Tuckmill Upper
- Latitude
- 52.95367
- Longitude
- -6.69031
- Altitude
- 326 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort and multiple enclosure
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 5.55 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.69 ha, 2.57 ha, 5.55 ha
- Footprint
- 5.78 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, rubble, and counterscarp bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank and palisade
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North); Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- ridge and spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- commercial forestry, pasture, and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- C - Low
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1842); Earthwork Survey (1905); Other (1992); Other (1997); Other (1998); Geophysical Survey (2012); LiDAR Survey (2012); Other (1960-1969); Other (1973-1977)
Identifiers
- HER
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database WI027-010
- National record
- record WI 027
- Wikidata
- Q31081201
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'Brien, W. 2014. Unpublished excavation report: Rathnagree, Co. Wicklow. UCC Cork, Dept of Archaeology.
- O'Driscoll, J. 2012. Unpublished geophysical survey report: Rathnagree, Co. Wicklow. UCC Cork, Dept of Archaeology.