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Balleeghan Lower
Donegal, Republic of Ireland ยท Atlas IR0944
Location
- Atlas number
- IR0944 (944)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Donegal
- Historic county
- Donegal
- Latitude
- 55.30125
- Longitude
- -7.19834
- Altitude
- 133 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.57 ha
- Footprint
- 0.69 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- scrub or bracken and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1983)
Identifiers
- HER
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database DG004-031
- National record
- record DG 004
- Wikidata
- Q31075627
Sources
References
- Lacy, B. 1983. Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. The Stationary Office, Dublin.