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Killowen
Offaly, Republic of Ireland ยท Atlas IR0986
Location
- Atlas number
- IR0986 (986)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Offaly
- Historic county
- Offaly
- Parish, community, or townland
- Killowen
- Latitude
- 53.39054
- Longitude
- -7.13422
- Altitude
- 93 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.2 ha
- Footprint
- 0.42 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- ridge
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and pasture
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 OF004-004
- National record
- record OF 004
- Wikidata
- Q31082071
Sources
References
- O'Brien, C and Sweetman, D. 1997. Archaeological inventory of County Offaly. The Stationary Office, Dublin.