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Doonalt (Dún Alt)
Donegal, Republic of Ireland · Atlas IR1387
Location
- Atlas number
- IR1387 (1387)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Donegal
- Historic county
- Donegal
- Parish, community, or townland
- Doonalt
- Latitude
- 54.70817
- Longitude
- -8.76125
- Altitude
- 36 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 1, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 1.83 ha
- Footprint
- 2.37 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- northwest
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Earthwork Survey (1983)
Identifiers
- HER
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database DG080-021001
- National record
- record DG 080
- Wikidata
- Q31076353
Sources
References
- Lacey, B. 1983. Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. Lifford