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Redford Glebe
Donegal, Republic of Ireland ยท Atlas IR1465
Location
- Atlas number
- IR1465 (1465)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Donegal
- Historic county
- Donegal
- Parish, community, or townland
- Redford Glebe
- Latitude
- 55.29004
- Longitude
- -7.12054
- Altitude
- 26 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 2, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.28 ha
- Footprint
- 0.61 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- north
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- rectangular stone structures
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1913); Earthwork Survey (1983)
Identifiers
- HER
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database DG005-018
- National record
- record DG 005
- Wikidata
- Q31076887
Sources
References
- Lacey, B. 1983. Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. Lifford