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Foymoyle Beg
Clare, Republic of Ireland · Atlas IR0800
Location
- Atlas number
- IR0800 (800)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Clare
- Historic county
- Clare
- Parish, community, or townland
- Foymoyle Beg
- Latitude
- 52.79105
- Longitude
- -8.58725
- Altitude
- 242 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort and multiple enclosure
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 6.45 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 2.57 ha, 6.45 ha
- Footprint
- 6.79 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank, palisade, and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- scrub or bracken and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- 1200–800 BC
- Dating evidence
- C14
- Dating reliability
- A - High
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1995); Other (1998); Geophysical Survey (2004); Earthwork Survey (2004); Geophysical Survey (2012)
Identifiers
- HER
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database CL044-085
- National record
- record CL 044
- Wikidata
- Q31077888
Sources
References
- Condit, T. 1995. Hillfort discoveries near Killaloe, Co. Clare. Archaeology Ireland 9 (1), 34-37.
- Hogan, N.2004. Unpublished geophysical and GPS survey report: Formoyle Beg, Co. Clare. NUIG, Dept of Archaeology.
- O'Brien, W. 2012. Unpublished excavation report: Formoyle Beg, Co. Clare. University College Cork, Dept of Archaeology.