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Cahercalla
Clare, Republic of Ireland ยท Atlas IR0818
Location
- Atlas number
- IR0818 (818)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Clare
- Historic county
- Clare
- Parish, community, or townland
- Cahercalla
- Latitude
- 52.83643
- Longitude
- -8.83159
- Altitude
- 35 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort and multiple enclosure
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 2, SW 1, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 5
- Enclosed area
- 0.74 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.44 ha, 0.74 ha
- Footprint
- 0.82 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope
- Aspect
- east
- Land use
- woodland and pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1842); Earthwork Survey (1906)
Identifiers
- HER
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database CL034-150002
- National record
- record CL 034
- Wikidata
- Q31077988
Sources