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Meenogahane
Kerry, Republic of Ireland ยท Atlas IR1275
Location
- Atlas number
- IR1275 (1275)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Kerry
- Historic county
- Kerry
- Parish, community, or townland
- Meenogahane
- Latitude
- 52.45005
- Longitude
- -9.76740
- Altitude
- 18 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 2, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.03 ha
- Footprint
- 0.09 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- northwest
- 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 KE008-003
- National record
- record KE 008
- Wikidata
- Q31082757
Sources
References
- Toal, C. 1995. North Kerry Archaeological Survey. Dingle