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Tinoran
Wicklow, Republic of Ireland · Atlas IR0728
Location
- Atlas number
- IR0728 (728)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Wicklow
- Historic county
- Wicklow
- Parish, community, or townland
- Tinoran
- Latitude
- 52.95920
- Longitude
- -6.73239
- Altitude
- 312 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort and multiple enclosure
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial bivallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 5
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 5, SW 3, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 84 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 4.67 ha, 14.46 ha, 55.74 ha, 84 ha
- Footprint
- 84.03 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- commercial forestry and pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- round stone structures
- Investigations
- Other (1902); Other (1906); Other (1997); Other (1998); LiDAR Survey (2001-2017)
Identifiers
- HER
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database WI026-004
- National record
- record WI 026
- Wikidata
- Q31081431
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.