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Lambay Island
Dublin, Republic of Ireland ยท Atlas IR1303
Location
- Atlas number
- IR1303 (1303)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dublin
- Historic county
- Dublin
- Parish, community, or townland
- Lambay Island
- Latitude
- 53.49660
- Longitude
- -6.02344
- Altitude
- 8 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 5
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 5, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.18 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.08 ha, 0.18 ha
- Footprint
- 0.42 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and rubble
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- northeast
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1837); 1st Identified Written Reference (1922); Geophysical Survey (2013)
Identifiers
- HER
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database DU009-001001
- National record
- record DU 009
- Wikidata
- Q31070041
Sources
References
- Dowling G. 2014. Geophysical survey at Lambay, north Co. Dublin (Licence no. 12R078). Unpublished report submitted to the National Monuments Service, Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
- Westropp, T.J. 1922. The promontory forts and adjoining remains in Leinster. The royal society of Antiquaries of Ireland 12, 5276.