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Clashmelcon
Kerry, Republic of Ireland ยท Atlas IR1274
Location
- Atlas number
- IR1274 (1274)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Kerry
- Historic county
- Kerry
- Parish, community, or townland
- Clashmeclon
- Latitude
- 52.46653
- Longitude
- -9.74479
- Altitude
- 6 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 1, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.14 ha
- Footprint
- 0.16 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- west
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1912); Earthwork Survey (1995)
Identifiers
- HER
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database KE009-077
- National record
- record KE 009
- Wikidata
- Q31082711
Sources
References
- Toal, C. 1995. North Kerry Archaeological Survey. Dingle
- Westropp, T. J. 1912. Notes on the promontory forts and similar structures of County Kerry. Part V- Iveragh (Valentia to St. Finans Bay). Proceedings of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 47, 305