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Meenogahane
Kerry, Republic of Ireland ยท Atlas IR1271
Location
- Atlas number
- IR1271 (1271)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Kerry
- Historic county
- Kerry
- Parish, community, or townland
- Meenogahane
- Latitude
- 52.44834
- Longitude
- -9.78078
- Altitude
- 8 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 1, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.19 ha
- Footprint
- 0.29 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- northwest
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- round stone structures and rectangular stone structures
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1841); Earthwork Survey (1995)
Identifiers
- HER
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database KE008-001
- National record
- record KE 008
- Wikidata
- Q31082569
Sources
References
- Toal, C. 1995. North Kerry Archaeological Survey. Dingle