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Tullig
Clare, Republic of Ireland ยท Atlas IR1521
Location
- Atlas number
- IR1521 (1521)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Clare
- Historic county
- Clare
- Parish, community, or townland
- Tullig
- Latitude
- 52.61047
- Longitude
- -9.80441
- Altitude
- 14 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Likely destroyed
- 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
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.79 ha
- Footprint
- 1.7 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1840); Earthwork Survey (1908)
Identifiers
- HER
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database CL065-027
- National record
- record CL 065
- Wikidata
- Q31079294
Sources
References
- Westropp, T.J.1908. 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.