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Beal Middle
Kerry, Republic of Ireland ยท Atlas IR1263
Location
- Atlas number
- IR1263 (1263)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Kerry
- Historic county
- Kerry
- Parish, community, or townland
- Beal Middle
- Latitude
- 52.56842
- Longitude
- -9.64958
- Altitude
- 4 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 0, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.04 ha
- Footprint
- 0.12 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (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 (1841); Earthwork Survey (1995)
Identifiers
- HER
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database KE001-005
- National record
- record KE 001
- Wikidata
- Q31082444
Sources
References
- Toal, C. 1995. North Kerry Archaeological Survey. Dingle