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Murirrigane (Muragrán)
Kerry, Republic of Ireland · Atlas IR1251
Location
- Atlas number
- IR1251 (1251)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Kerry
- Historic county
- Kerry
- Parish, community, or townland
- Murirrigane
- Latitude
- 52.28002
- Longitude
- -10.15968
- Altitude
- 12 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 1, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.05 ha
- Footprint
- 0.07 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall and wall-walk
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- east
- Land use
- scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Earthwork Survey (1986); Other (1995)
Identifiers
- HER
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database KE026-004
- National record
- record KE 026
- Wikidata
- Q31082304
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.