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Drumanagh
Dublin, Republic of Ireland ยท Atlas IR1319
Location
- Atlas number
- IR1319 (1319)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dublin
- Historic county
- Dublin
- Parish, community, or townland
- Drumanagh
- Latitude
- 53.54038
- Longitude
- -6.08029
- Altitude
- 14 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 3, NW 3
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 12.62 ha
- Footprint
- 14.32 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, rubble, and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
- Water source
- well or cistern
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery and metal
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1837); 1st Identified Written Reference (1838); Earthwork Survey (1906); Earthwork Survey (1922); Other (1994); Geophysical Survey (2014)
Identifiers
- HER
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database DU008-006001
- National record
- record DU 008
- Wikidata
- Q31070182
Sources
References
- Dalton, J. 1838. A History of County Dublin. Hodges and Smith, Dublin.
- Dowling G. 2014. Geophysical Survey at Drumanagh, north Co. Dublin (Licence 12R127). Unpublished report submitted to the National Monuments Service, Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht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.
- Raftery, B. 1994. Pagan Celtic Ireland. Routledge