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Belmont
Galway, Republic of Ireland · Atlas IR0731
Location
- Atlas number
- IR0731 (731)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Galway
- Historic county
- Galway
- Parish, community, or townland
- Belmont
- Latitude
- 53.61635
- Longitude
- -8.97485
- Altitude
- 92 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 1.72 ha
- Footprint
- 2.33 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South)
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); Other (1976); Other (1999)
Identifiers
- HER
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database GA015-016
- National record
- record GA 015
- Wikidata
- Q31068528
Sources
References
- Alcock, O., de hÓra, K. and Gosling, P. 1999. Archaeological Inventory of County Galway, Vol. II. The Stationary Office, Dublin.
- Ó Rord_in, S. 1976. The Hillfort at Belmont in Co. Galway. Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society, Vol. 35, 89-95.