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Boley
Laois, Republic of Ireland ยท Atlas IR0738
Location
- Atlas number
- IR0738 (738)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Laois
- Historic county
- Laois
- Parish, community, or townland
- Boley
- Latitude
- 52.92389
- Longitude
- -7.08677
- Altitude
- 222 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort and multiple enclosure
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 1, SW 2, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 28.12 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 1.05 ha, 28.12 ha
- Footprint
- 28.12 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and pasture
- Water source
- spring
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1842); Other (1906); Other (1995)
Identifiers
- HER
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database LA025-027001
- National record
- record LA 025
- Wikidata
- Q31118608
Sources
References
- Sweetman, D., Alcock, O. and Moran, B. 1995. Archaeological Inventory of County Laois._The Stationary Office, Dublin.