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High Island (Ardoileán)
Galway (High Island), Republic of Ireland · Atlas IR1102
Location
- Atlas number
- IR1102 (1102)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Galway (High Island)
- Historic county
- Galway
- Parish, community, or townland
- High Island
- Latitude
- 53.54746
- Longitude
- -10.24795
- 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 0, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.09 ha
- Footprint
- 0.11 ha
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- southeast
- Land use
- coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Identifiers
- HER
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database GA021-026002
- National record
- record GA 026
- Wikidata
- Q31119603
Sources
References
- Gosling, P. 1993. The Archaeological Inventory of County Galway: Vol 1, 28-31.Stationary Office, Dublin