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Castlecarra
Mayo, Republic of Ireland · Atlas IR1083
Location
- Atlas number
- IR1083 (1083)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Mayo
- Historic county
- Mayo
- Parish, community, or townland
- Castlecarra
- Latitude
- 53.72318
- Longitude
- -9.26638
- Altitude
- 19 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 0, SW 0, NW 0
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 11.97 ha
- Footprint
- 12.05 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1842); Other (1906); Other (1994)
Identifiers
- HER
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database MA099-018
- National record
- record MA 099
- Wikidata
- Q31072266
Sources
References
- Lavelle, D. 1994. An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District: Including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. FS, Dublin.