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Fahy (An Fhaiche)
Galway, Republic of Ireland ยท Atlas IR1098
Location
- Atlas number
- IR1098 (1098)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Galway
- Historic county
- Galway
- Parish, community, or townland
- Fahy
- Latitude
- 53.49939
- Longitude
- -10.11178
- Altitude
- 5 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 0, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.05 ha
- Footprint
- 0.09 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- southeast
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1840); 1st Identified Written Reference (1984)
Identifiers
- HER
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database GA035-038
- National record
- record GA 035
- Wikidata
- Q31069257
Sources
References
- Gosling, P. 1993. The Archaeological Inventory of County Galway: Vol 1, 28-31.Stationary Office, Dublin