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Cloghaunsavaun
Clare, Republic of Ireland ยท Atlas IR1513
Location
- Atlas number
- IR1513 (1513)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Clare
- Historic county
- Clare
- Parish, community, or townland
- Cloghaunsavaun
- Latitude
- 52.59680
- Longitude
- -9.83818
- Altitude
- 12 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 3, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.32 ha
- Footprint
- 0.58 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- northeast
- 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 (1840); 1st Identified Written Reference (1908)
Identifiers
- HER
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database CL064-005001
- National record
- record CL 064
- Wikidata
- Q31079135
Sources
References
- Westropp, T.J. Promontory forts in the "Irrus," County Clare. Part II. Loop Head and Cross Group. The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 38 (3), 221-231