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Emlagh (An Timleach)
Kerry, Republic of Ireland ยท Atlas IR1132
Location
- Atlas number
- IR1132 (1132)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Kerry
- Historic county
- Kerry
- Parish, community, or townland
- Emlagh
- Latitude
- 51.96656
- Longitude
- -10.27040
- Altitude
- 6 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 2, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.1 ha
- Footprint
- 0.13 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Passage-way/Corridor (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- southwest
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1838); Earthwork Survey (1912); Earthwork Survey (1996)
Identifiers
- HER
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database KE069-010
- National record
- record KE 069
- Wikidata
- Q31082222
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