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Killeany (Cill Ñinne)
Galway (Inis Mór), Republic of Ireland · Atlas IR1110
Location
- Atlas number
- IR1110 (1110)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Galway (Inis Mór)
- Historic county
- Galway
- Parish, community, or townland
- Killeany
- Latitude
- 53.10446
- Longitude
- -9.68773
- Altitude
- 6 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 0, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.6 ha
- Footprint
- 1 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall and wall-walk
- Also recorded
- chevaux de frise
- Entrance forms
- Uncertain (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- southwest
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- round stone structures
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1821); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1840); Earthwork Survey (1914); Other (1927); Earthwork Survey (1984); Other (1986)
Identifiers
- HER
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database GA119-001
- National record
- record GA 119
- Wikidata
- Q31119611
Sources
References
- Gosling, P. (1993). The Archaeological Inventory of County Galway: Vol 1, 28-31. Stationary Office, Dublin
- Harbison, P 1971 Wooden and stone chevaux-de frise in central and western Europe. Proc Prehist Soc 37 (1971), 195-225
- O'Flanagan, Rev. M. (Compiler) (1927) Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of the county of Galway collected during the progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1839. Typescript in 3 vols. Bray
- Robinson, T. (1986) Stones of Aran: pilgrimage. Mullingar
- Westropp, T.J. (1914) Promontory forts of the Islands of Connacht. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 44, 333