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Ballymacadoyle (Baile Mhic and Daill)
Kerry, Republic of Ireland · Atlas IR1137
Location
- Atlas number
- IR1137 (1137)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Kerry
- Historic county
- Kerry
- Parish, community, or townland
- Ballymacadoyle
- Latitude
- 52.11322
- Longitude
- -10.28515
- Altitude
- 47 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- 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
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 1.69 ha
- Footprint
- 2.1 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, stone wall, and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Other Forms (North)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- south
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1840); Earthwork Survey (1865); Earthwork Survey (1910); Other (1986); Earthwork Survey (1996)
Identifiers
- HER
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database KE053-067
- National record
- record KE 053
- Wikidata
- Q31082255
Sources
References
- Cuppage, J 1986 «Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne (1986), no. 262
- 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.
- Twohig, E. 1987. Pitt-Rivers in Munster 1862-65/6. Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society 92, 34-46.
- Westropp, T.J. 1910. Promontory forts and similar structures of County Kerry. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 40, 179-213, 265-196.