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Alaghee/Alachaí Mór
Kerry, Republic of Ireland · Atlas IR1118
Location
- Atlas number
- IR1118 (1118)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Kerry
- Historic county
- Kerry
- Parish, community, or townland
- Alaghee
- Latitude
- 51.81600
- Longitude
- -10.33782
- Altitude
- 17 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
- 0.13 ha
- Footprint
- 0.15 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Other Forms (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- southwest
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Earthwork Survey (1996)
Identifiers
- HER
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database KE096-014
- National record
- record KE 096
- Wikidata
- Q31082211
Sources
References
- O'Sullivan, A and Sheehan, J. 1996. Iveragh Peninsula: An Archaeological Survey of South Kerry. Cork University Press. Cork
- Redmond, M. 1995. A survey of the promontory forts of the Kerry peninsulas. Journal of the Kerry Archaeological and Historical Society 28, 5-63.