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Clopook
Laois, Republic of Ireland ยท Atlas IR0739
Location
- Atlas number
- IR0739 (739)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Laois
- Historic county
- Laois
- Parish, community, or townland
- Clopook
- Latitude
- 52.96467
- Longitude
- -7.13143
- Altitude
- 193 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort and multiple enclosure
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate, partial bivallate, and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 2, SW 1, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 3.02 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.8 ha, 3.02 ha
- Footprint
- 3.34 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (West); Outworks (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1852); Earthwork Survey (1906); Other (1995)
Identifiers
- HER
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database LA019-021001
- National record
- record LA 019
- Wikidata
- Q31118613
Sources
References
- Byrne, D. 1852. On the duns of Cloch-an-Phuca and Log-an-Chorain. Transactions of the Kilkenny Archaeological Society 1, part 3, 298-300.
- Grogan, 2005b. The North Munster Project Vol. 2. Wordwell, Dublin.
- Sweetman, D., Alcock, O. and Moran, B. 1995. Archaeological Inventory of County Laois._The Stationary Office, Dublin.
- Walsh, A. 1972. A preliminary report on monuments of archaeological interest in county Laois. An Foras Forbartha Teoranta, Dublin.