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Dunmore (Shanooan)
Waterford, Republic of Ireland ยท Atlas IR0978
Location
- Atlas number
- IR0978 (978)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Waterford
- Historic county
- Waterford
- Parish, community, or townland
- Dunmore
- Latitude
- 52.14595
- Longitude
- -6.99102
- Altitude
- 8 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 1, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 1.31 ha
- Footprint
- 1.74 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- east
- Land use
- built-up land
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- other roundhouse evidence
- Finds
- lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1840); Earthwork Survey (1989); Excavation (2001); 1st Identified Written Reference (1914-1916)
Identifiers
- HER
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database WA027-035001
- National record
- record WA 027
- Wikidata
- Q31082894
Sources
References
- Cleary, R.M 2003. Promontory Fort. In I Bennett (ed.) Excavations 2001, 388. Wordwell, Bray.
- 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