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Rathclooney
Clare, Republic of Ireland ยท Atlas IR0910
Location
- Atlas number
- IR0910 (910)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Clare
- Historic county
- Clare
- Parish, community, or townland
- Rathclooney
- Latitude
- 52.89317
- Longitude
- -8.87303
- Altitude
- 65 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
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.83 ha
- Footprint
- 0.94 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North west); Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1906)
Identifiers
- HER
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database CL026-100
- National record
- record CL 026
- Wikidata
- Q31078627
Sources