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Parkmore
Donegal, Republic of Ireland ยท Atlas IR1459
Location
- Atlas number
- IR1459 (1459)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Donegal
- Historic county
- Donegal
- Parish, community, or townland
- Parkmore
- Latitude
- 55.18936
- Longitude
- -7.90261
- Altitude
- 25 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 2, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.41 ha
- Footprint
- 0.7 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- northeast
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Earthwork Survey (1983); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1840-1849)
Identifiers
- HER
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database DG016-014
- National record
- record DG 016
- Wikidata
- Q31076839
Sources
References
- Lacey, B. 1983. Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. Lifford