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Linsfort
Donegal, Republic of Ireland ยท Atlas IR1434
Location
- Atlas number
- IR1434 (1434)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Donegal
- Historic county
- Donegal
- Parish, community, or townland
- Linsfort
- Latitude
- 55.17128
- Longitude
- -7.50762
- Altitude
- 23 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- 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
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.21 ha
- Footprint
- 0.34 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Entrance forms
- Other Forms (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- southwest
- Land use
- coastal grassland
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 DG018-031
- National record
- record DG 018
- Wikidata
- Q31076741
Sources
References
- Lacey, B. 1983. Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. Lifford