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Ballymartin
Mayo, Republic of Ireland · Atlas IR0971
Location
- Atlas number
- IR0971 (971)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Mayo
- Historic county
- Mayo
- Parish, community, or townland
- Ballymartin
- Latitude
- 53.58778
- Longitude
- -9.15714
- Altitude
- 48 m
Form and condition
- Type
- level-terrain fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 4
- Number of ditches
- 4
- Possible original entrances
- 4
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 4
- Enclosed area
- 0.7 ha
- Footprint
- 2.07 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and stone wall
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North); Simple Gap (East); Simple Gap (South); Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1842); Earthwork Survey (1906)
Identifiers
- HER
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database MA118-098
- National record
- record MA 118
- Wikidata
- Q31071855
Sources
References
- Lavelle, D. 1994. An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District: Including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. FS, Dublin.