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Inishdooey (Oileán Dúiche)
Donegal (Inishdooey), Republic of Ireland · Atlas IR1469
Location
- Atlas number
- IR1469 (1469)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Donegal (Inishdooey)
- Historic county
- Donegal
- Parish, community, or townland
- Inishdooey
- Latitude
- 55.18762
- Longitude
- -8.16185
- Altitude
- 3 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 0, SW 0, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 2.4 ha
- Footprint
- 2.75 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- south
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1913)
Identifiers
- HER
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database DG014-003
- National record
- record DG 014
- Wikidata
- Q31119578
Sources
References
- Lacey, B. 1983. Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. Lifford