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Ballykilleen
Offaly, Republic of Ireland ยท Atlas IR0972
Location
- Atlas number
- IR0972 (972)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Offaly
- Historic county
- Offaly
- Parish, community, or townland
- Ballykilleen
- Latitude
- 53.30668
- Longitude
- -7.09541
- Altitude
- 109 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.12 ha
- Footprint
- 0.95 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- east and level
- Land use
- woodland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1842); Earthwork Survey (1906); Other (1997)
Identifiers
- HER
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database OF011-035001
- National record
- record OF 011
- Wikidata
- Q31082046
Sources
References
- O'Brien, C and Sweetman, D. 1997. Archaeological inventory of County Offaly. The Stationary Office, Dublin.