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Howth
Dublin, Republic of Ireland ยท Atlas IR1299
Location
- Atlas number
- IR1299 (1299)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dublin
- Historic county
- Dublin
- Parish, community, or townland
- Howth
- Latitude
- 53.36498
- Longitude
- -6.05573
- Altitude
- 46 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort and multiple enclosure
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 0, NW 3
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 8.5 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 5.56 ha, 8.5 ha
- Footprint
- 10.43 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- southeast
- Land use
- parkland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- quarry hollows
- Finds
- animal bones and lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1837); 1st Identified Written Reference (1922); Other (1993)
Identifiers
- HER
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database DU016-003001
- National record
- record DU 016
- Wikidata
- Q31069981
Sources
References
- Westropp, T.J. 1922. The promontory forts and adjoining remains in Leinster. The royal society of Antiquaries of Ireland 12, 5276.