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Cloonamore (Cluana Mór)

Galway (Inishbofin), Republic of Ireland · Atlas IR1090

Location

Atlas number
IR1090 (1090)
Country
Republic of Ireland
Current county or unitary authority
Galway (Inishbofin)
Historic county
Galway
Parish, community, or townland
Cloonamore
Latitude
53.63448
Longitude
-10.19426
Altitude
10 m

Form and condition

Type
promontory fort
Condition
Extant and Likely destroyed
Morphology
partial univallate
Complete rampart circuit
No
Number of ramparts
1
Ramparts by quadrant
NE 0, SE 0, SW 1, NW 1
Number of ditches
0
Possible original entrances
0
Breaks through the ramparts
0
Enclosed area
0.59 ha
Footprint
0.7 ha
Enclosing works, as visible
stone wall

Landscape

Topographic position
coastal promontory
Aspect
level
Land use
heather moorland and coastal grassland

Dating

Dating
undated
Dating reliability
D - None

Interior and investigation

Interior surface
round stone structures
Investigations
1st Identified Map Depiction (1839); 1st Identified Written Reference (1911); Earthwork Survey (1914); Earthwork Survey (1993)

Identifiers

HER
Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database GA009B002
National record
record GA 009
Wikidata
Q31119620

Sources

References

  1. Gosling, P. 1993. The Archaeological Inventory of County Galway: Vol 1, 28-31.Stationary Office, Dublin.
  2. Westropp, T.J. 1911.
  3. Westropp, T.J. 1914. Promontory forts of the Islands of Connacht. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 44, 333.