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Tory Island
Donegal (Tory Island), Republic of Ireland ยท Atlas IR1472
Location
- Atlas number
- IR1472 (1472)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Donegal (Tory Island)
- Historic county
- Donegal
- Parish, community, or townland
- Tory Island
- Latitude
- 55.26002
- Longitude
- -8.19422
- Altitude
- 16 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort and multiple enclosure
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 4
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 4, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 5
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 7.9 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.98 ha, 3.9 ha, 7.9 ha
- Footprint
- 10.81 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and stone wall
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- north
- Land use
- scrub or bracken, heather moorland, and coastal grassland
- Water source
- well or cistern
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- round stone structures
- Interior excavation
- roundhouses
- Finds
- pottery, lithics, and environmental material
- Investigations
- Excavation (1949); Earthwork Survey (1983); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1840-1849)
Identifiers
- HER
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database DG006-004001
- National record
- record DG 006
- Wikidata
- Q31119584
Sources
References
- Lacey, B. 1983. Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. Lifford
- Sidebotham, J.N. 1949. A promontory fort on Tory Island. Ulster Journal of Archaeology 12, 98-103