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Saltee Island Great
Wexford (Saltee Island Great), Republic of Ireland ยท Atlas IR1064
Location
- Atlas number
- IR1064 (1064)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Wexford (Saltee Island Great)
- Historic county
- Wexford
- Parish, community, or townland
- Saltee Island Great
- Latitude
- 52.12227
- Longitude
- -6.60434
- Altitude
- 2 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
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.04 ha
- Footprint
- 0.06 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- round stone structures
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1989)
Identifiers
- HER
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database WX051-002001
- National record
- record WX 051
- Wikidata
- Q31120126
Sources
References
- Moore, M. 1996. Archaeological inventory of County Wexford, 26. The stationary Office, Dublin.