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Cloghanecanuig (Clochán Ceannúigh)
Kerry (Iveragh Peninsula), Republic of Ireland · Atlas IR1120
Location
- Atlas number
- IR1120 (1120)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Kerry (Iveragh Peninsula)
- Historic county
- Kerry
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kerry
- Latitude
- 51.84458
- Longitude
- -10.34830
- Altitude
- 7 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 0, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.23 ha
- Footprint
- 0.42 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and stone wall
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Passage-way/Corridor (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- southwest
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1840); 1st Identified Written Reference (1912); Earthwork Survey (1996)
Identifiers
- HER
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database KE096-005
- National record
- record KE 096
- Wikidata
- Q31119622
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.
- Westropp, T.J. 1912. Notes on the promontory forts and similar structures of County Kerry. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 42, 285-324.