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Brewel West
Kildare, Republic of Ireland ยท Atlas IR0964
Location
- Atlas number
- IR0964 (964)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Kildare
- Historic county
- Kildare
- Parish, community, or townland
- Brewel West
- Latitude
- 53.05586
- Longitude
- -6.75872
- Altitude
- 222 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.32 ha
- Footprint
- 0.49 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North); Simple Gap (South east)
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 KD032-026001
- National record
- record KD 032
- Wikidata
- Q31069697
Sources