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Castlecrine
Clare, Republic of Ireland ยท Atlas IR0820
Location
- Atlas number
- IR0820 (820)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Clare
- Historic county
- Clare
- Parish, community, or townland
- Castlecrine
- Latitude
- 52.75588
- Longitude
- -8.75044
- Altitude
- 73 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.11 ha
- Footprint
- 0.54 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North); Simple Gap (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- ridge and hillslope
- Aspect
- southeast
- Land use
- woodland
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 CL052-033
- National record
- record CL 052
- Wikidata
- Q31078063
Sources