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Inishark (Inis Airc)
Galway, Republic of Ireland ยท Atlas IR1104
Location
- Atlas number
- IR1104 (1104)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Galway
- Historic county
- Galway
- Parish, community, or townland
- Inishark
- Latitude
- 53.60868
- Longitude
- -10.28959
- Altitude
- 49 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 57.94 ha
- Footprint
- 59.01 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- southwest
- Land use
- heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- round stone structures
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1840); Earthwork Survey (1984)
Identifiers
- HER
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database GA009C001
- National record
- record GA 009
- Wikidata
- Q31069332
Sources
References
- Gosling, P. 1993. The Archaeological Inventory of County Galway: Vol 1, 28-31.Stationary Office, Dublin