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Coolum
Waterford, Republic of Ireland ยท Atlas IR0961
Location
- Atlas number
- IR0961 (961)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Waterford
- Historic county
- Waterford
- Parish, community, or townland
- Coolum
- Latitude
- 52.13456
- Longitude
- -7.08094
- Altitude
- 6 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 0, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.1 ha
- Footprint
- 0.2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- southwest
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1840); 1st Identified Written Reference (1906); Earthwork Survey (1914); Earthwork Survey (1989)
Identifiers
- HER
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database WA027-037
- National record
- record WA 027
- Wikidata
- Q31082859
Sources
References
- Moore, M. 1999. Archaeological inventory of County Waterford, 64-8. The stationary Office, Dublin.
- Westropp, T.J. 1914-16 Fortified headlands and castles on the south coast of Munster: Part II, from Ardmore to Dunmore, Co. Waterford. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 32C, 188-227.