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Kilbaha South (Horse Island)
Clare (Horse Island), Republic of Ireland ยท Atlas IR1517
Location
- Atlas number
- IR1517 (1517)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Clare (Horse Island)
- Historic county
- Clare
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kilbaha
- Latitude
- 52.55557
- Longitude
- -9.89002
- Altitude
- 6 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 0, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 1.5 ha
- Footprint
- 1.86 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and stone wall
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank and stone wall
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Out-turned (North)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- metal, animal bones, and environmental material
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1840); 1st Identified Written Reference (1908); Excavation (2006)
Identifiers
- HER
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database CL071-014
- National record
- record CL 071
- Wikidata
- Q31119480
Sources
References
- Lynch, M. and Jones, C. 2009 'Dunmore Head, Horse Island, Kilbaha South'. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2006: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 57 (no. 252). Bray. Wordwell.
- 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