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Shankoagh
Roscommon, Republic of Ireland ยท Atlas IR1097
Location
- Atlas number
- IR1097 (1097)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Roscommon
- Historic county
- Roscommon
- Parish, community, or townland
- Shankoagh
- Latitude
- 53.71315
- Longitude
- -8.44282
- Altitude
- 58 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
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.21 ha
- Footprint
- 0.27 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1996)
Identifiers
- HER
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database RO034-002
- National record
- record RO 034
- Wikidata
- Q31077430
Sources