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The Doons
Leitrim, Republic of Ireland ยท Atlas IR0741
Location
- Atlas number
- IR0741 (741)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Leitrim
- Historic county
- Leitrim
- Parish, community, or townland
- Fawnlion
- Latitude
- 54.28855
- Longitude
- -8.32496
- Altitude
- 275 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort and multiple enclosure
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 2, SW 1, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 1.16 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.86 ha, 1.16 ha
- Footprint
- 1.29 ha
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- round stone structures
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (2010)
Identifiers
- HER
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database LE010-085005
- National record
- record LE 010
- Wikidata
- Q31053288
Sources
References
- Kytmannow, T., Kahlert, T. and Hunt, C. 2010. The Doons hillfort. Archaeology Ireland 24 (3). 18-21.