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Derrylahan (Doire Leathan)
Donegal, Republic of Ireland ยท Atlas IR1391
Location
- Atlas number
- IR1391 (1391)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Donegal
- Historic county
- Donegal
- Parish, community, or townland
- Derrylahan
- Latitude
- 54.62887
- Longitude
- -8.62751
- Altitude
- 8 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 0, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.23 ha
- Footprint
- 0.3 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- southwest
- Land use
- pasture and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1840); Earthwork Survey (1983)
Identifiers
- HER
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database DG096-009
- National record
- record DG 096
- Wikidata
- Q31076584
Sources
References
- Lacey, B. 1983. Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. Lifford