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Ballybunion
Kerry, Republic of Ireland ยท Atlas IR1264
Location
- Atlas number
- IR1264 (1264)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Kerry
- Historic county
- Kerry
- Parish, community, or townland
- Ballybunion
- Latitude
- 52.51198
- Longitude
- -9.67739
- Altitude
- 7 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 1, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.32 ha
- Footprint
- 0.58 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- parkland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- rectangular stone structures and curvilinear platforms
- Finds
- lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1841); 1st Identified Written Reference (1914); Earthwork Survey (1995); Excavation (2001)
Identifiers
- HER
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database KE004-031001
- National record
- record KE 004
- Wikidata
- Q31082479
Sources
References
- Toal, C. 1995. North Kerry Archaeological Survey. Dingle
- Dunne, N. 2003. Ballybunion. In E. Bennett (ed.) Excavations 2001, 160. Wordwell, Bray.