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Magherintemple
Cavan, Republic of Ireland ยท Atlas IR0935
Location
- Atlas number
- IR0935 (935)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Cavan
- Historic county
- Cavan
- Parish, community, or townland
- Magherintemple
- Latitude
- 54.09477
- Longitude
- -7.22051
- Altitude
- 126 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 2.79 ha
- Footprint
- 3.06 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1842); Other (1948); Other (1995)
Identifiers
- HER
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database CV016-099001
- National record
- record CV 016
- Wikidata
- Q31083676
Sources
References
- O'Donovan, P. 1995. Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan. The Stationary Office, Dublin.