Location
- Atlas number
- IR0801 (801)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Clare
- Historic county
- Clare
- Parish, community, or townland
- Mooghaun
- Latitude
- 52.78287
- Longitude
- -8.87841
- Altitude
- 78 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort and multiple enclosure
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 11
- Enclosed area
- 10.85 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.76 ha, 2.88 ha, 10.85 ha
- Footprint
- 11.05 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble
- Enclosing works, excavated
- counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Passage-way/Corridor (South east); In-turned (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland, parkland, and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- 1200–800 BC
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual and C14
- Dating reliability
- A - High
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery, metalworking, animal bones, and lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1842); 1st Identified Written Reference (1893); Other (1906); Other (1998); Excavation (1992-1995)
Identifiers
- HER
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database CL042-074001
- National record
- record CL 042
- Wikidata
- Q31077907
Sources
References
- Westropp, T. 1893. Prehistoric stone forts of central Clare- Moghane and Langough, near Dromoland. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 33, 281-291.
- Westropp, T. 1908. Types of the ring-forts and similar structures remaining in eastern Clare (the Newmarket Group). Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 27C, 217-235.
- Grogan, 2005a. The North Munster Project I. Wordwell, Dublin.
- Grogan, 2005b. The North Munster Project II. Wordwell, Dublin.