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Ballybroony
Mayo, Republic of Ireland ยท Atlas IR1019
Location
- Atlas number
- IR1019 (1019)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Mayo
- Historic county
- Mayo
- Parish, community, or townland
- Ballybroony
- National Grid reference
- G1836324226
- Latitude
- 54.16059
- Longitude
- -9.25047
- Altitude
- 47 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 4
- Enclosed area
- 0.64 ha
- Footprint
- 1.19 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and rubble
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture, scrub or bracken, and heather moorland
- Water source
- pool
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 MA022-077
- National record
- record MA 022
- Wikidata
- Q31071929
Sources