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Knockglass More (An Cnoc Glas Mór)
Kerry, Republic of Ireland · Atlas IR1247
Location
- Atlas number
- IR1247 (1247)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Kerry
- Historic county
- Kerry
- Parish, community, or townland
- Knockglass More
- Latitude
- 52.22834
- Longitude
- -9.90146
- Altitude
- 7 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
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.07 ha
- Footprint
- 0.08 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- west
- Land use
- woodland and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1841); Earthwork Survey (1986)
Identifiers
- HER
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database KE037-015
- National record
- record KE 037
- Wikidata
- Q31082291
Sources
References
- Cuppage, J. et al. 1986. Archaeological Survey of the Dingle Peninsula. Ballyferriter
- 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
- Seabhac, An. 1939. Trocha-C_ad Chorca Dhuibhne. Baile tha Cliath.