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Muckross
Donegal, Republic of Ireland ยท Atlas IR1435
Location
- Atlas number
- IR1435 (1435)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Donegal
- Historic county
- Donegal
- Parish, community, or townland
- Muckross
- Latitude
- 54.60892
- Longitude
- -8.59217
- Altitude
- 15 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
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.13 ha
- Footprint
- 0.16 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Other Forms (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Earthwork Survey (1983)
Identifiers
- HER
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database DG096-027001
- National record
- record DG 096
- Wikidata
- Q31076769
Sources
References
- Lacey, B. 1983. Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. Lifford