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Ballyhickey
Clare, Republic of Ireland ยท Atlas IR0816
Location
- Atlas number
- IR0816 (816)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Clare
- Historic county
- Clare
- Parish, community, or townland
- Ballyhickey
- Latitude
- 52.83743
- Longitude
- -8.85862
- Altitude
- 42 m
Form and condition
- Type
- level-terrain fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.23 ha
- Footprint
- 0.41 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east); Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- ridge
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1842); Earthwork Survey (1906); Other (1998)
Identifiers
- HER
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database CL034-136
- National record
- record CL 034
- Wikidata
- Q31077947
Sources