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Ballyhugh
Cavan, Republic of Ireland ยท Atlas IR1057
Location
- Atlas number
- IR1057 (1057)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Cavan
- Historic county
- Cavan
- Parish, community, or townland
- Ballyhugh
- Latitude
- 54.08306
- Longitude
- -7.54496
- Altitude
- 66 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 1, SW 1, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.27 ha
- Footprint
- 0.34 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1842); Earthwork Survey (1906); Other (1995)
Identifiers
- HER
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database CV014-005
- National record
- record CV 014
- Wikidata
- Q31083677
Sources
References
- O'Donovan, P. 1995. Archaeological Survey of County Carlow. The Stationary Office, Dublin.