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Ballybreen
Clare, Republic of Ireland ยท Atlas IR0802
Location
- Atlas number
- IR0802 (802)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Clare
- Historic county
- Clare
- Parish, community, or townland
- Ballybreen
- Latitude
- 52.97807
- Longitude
- -9.23511
- Altitude
- 143 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.62 ha
- Footprint
- 1.12 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- north
- Land use
- scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1842); Other (1906)
Identifiers
- HER
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database CL016-004
- National record
- record CL 016
- Wikidata
- Q31077929
Sources