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Rathmoon
Wicklow, Republic of Ireland ยท Atlas IR1010
Location
- Atlas number
- IR1010 (1010)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Wicklow
- Historic county
- Wicklow
- Parish, community, or townland
- Rathmoon
- Latitude
- 52.93377
- Longitude
- -6.72504
- Altitude
- 150 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort and multiple enclosure
- Condition
- Cropmark and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 4
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 4, SW 4, NW 3
- Number of ditches
- 4
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 1.66 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.15 ha, 0.49 ha, 1.24 ha, 1.66 ha
- Footprint
- 1.82 ha
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East); Simple Gap (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and lowland
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
- Water source
- pool
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1842); Earthwork Survey (1906); Other (1997); Geophysical Survey (2014)
Identifiers
- HER
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database WI026-009
- National record
- record WI 026
- Wikidata
- Q31081553
Sources
References
- Kilfeather, A and Grogan, E. 1997. Archaeological Inventory of County Wicklow. The Stationary Office, Dublin.
- O'Driscoll, J. 2014 Unpublished Geophysical Survey Report: Rathmoon, Co. Wicklow. University College Cork, Dept of Archaeology.