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Inishshark
Galway (Inishark), Republic of Ireland ยท Atlas IR1106
Location
- Atlas number
- IR1106 (1106)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Galway (Inishark)
- Historic county
- Galway
- Parish, community, or townland
- Inishark
- Latitude
- 53.60816
- Longitude
- -10.26289
- Altitude
- 4 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 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.04 ha
- Footprint
- 0.04 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- north
- Land use
- coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1840); 1st Identified Written Reference (1914); Other (1984)
Identifiers
- HER
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database GA009D010
- National record
- record GA 009
- Wikidata
- Q31119617
Sources
References
- Gosling, P. 1993. The Archaeological Inventory of County Galway: Vol 1, 28-31.Stationary Office, Dublin
- Westropp, T.J. 1914. Promontory forts of the Islands of Connacht. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 44, 333.