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Spinans Hill 1
Wicklow, Republic of Ireland · Atlas IR0726
Location
- Atlas number
- IR0726 (726)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Wicklow
- Historic county
- Wicklow
- Parish, community, or townland
- Ballyhubbock Upper
- Latitude
- 52.96716
- Longitude
- -6.63107
- Altitude
- 409 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 10.69 ha
- Footprint
- 11.11 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1992); Other (1998); Other (2014)
Identifiers
- HER
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database WI027-078002
- National record
- record WI 027
- Wikidata
- Q31081299
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.
- Corlett, C. and Weaver, M. 2002. The Liam Price Notebooks: the Placenames, Antiquities and Topography of County Wicklow, II. Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Dublin.
- O'Driscoll, J. 2014. Unpublished GPS survey report: Spinans hill 1., Co. Wicklow. UCC Cork, Dept of Archaeology.