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Maglin Beg (Málainn Bhig)
Donegal, Republic of Ireland · Atlas IR1468
Location
- Atlas number
- IR1468 (1468)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Donegal
- Historic county
- Donegal
- Parish, community, or townland
- Maglin Beg
- Latitude
- 54.66156
- Longitude
- -8.77941
- Altitude
- 29 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Likely destroyed
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 1.2 ha
- Footprint
- 2 ha
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- south
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Earthwork Survey (1983); Other (2009)
Identifiers
- HER
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database DG089-019001
- National record
- record DG 089
- Wikidata
- Q31076912
Sources
References
- Lacey, B. 1983. Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. Lifford