Location
- Atlas number
- IR0803 (803)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Donegal
- Historic county
- Donegal
- Parish, community, or townland
- Carrowreagh
- Latitude
- 55.02382
- Longitude
- -7.42766
- Altitude
- 241 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort and multiple enclosure
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 1, SW 3, NW 3
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 2.4 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.35 ha, 1.6 ha, 2.4 ha
- Footprint
- 2.55 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- scrub or bracken
- Water source
- well or cistern
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1835); Other (1842); Other (1906); Other (1874-1878)
Identifiers
- HER
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database DG047-012005
- National record
- record DG 047
- Wikidata
- Q31075505
Sources
References
- Colby 1837