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Glen (Richards)
Wexford, Republic of Ireland ยท Atlas IR1073
Location
- Atlas number
- IR1073 (1073)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Wexford
- Historic county
- Wexford
- Parish, community, or townland
- Glen (Richards)
- Latitude
- 52.61704
- Longitude
- -6.22232
- Altitude
- 7 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 1, SW 2, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.05 ha
- Footprint
- 0.12 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- northeast
- Land use
- scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1840); Earthwork Survey (1987)
Identifiers
- HER
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database WX012-012
- National record
- record WX 012
- Wikidata
- Q31083340
Sources
References
- Moore, M. 1996. Archaeological inventory of County Wexford, 26. The stationary Office, Dublin