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Kilpoole Upper
Wicklow, Republic of Ireland ยท Atlas IR1045
Location
- Atlas number
- IR1045 (1045)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Wicklow
- Historic county
- Wicklow
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kilpoole Upper
- Latitude
- 52.94387
- Longitude
- -6.01753
- Altitude
- 10 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 0, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.2 ha
- Footprint
- 0.45 ha
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- southeast
- Land use
- parkland and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1900); Other (1971)
Identifiers
- HER
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database WI031-047
- National record
- record WI 031
- Wikidata
- Q31081571
Sources
References
- Grogan, E. and Kilfeather, A. 1997. Archaeological inventory of County Wicklow, 44. The stationary Office, Dublin.