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Corbally
Clare, Republic of Ireland ยท Atlas IR1563
Location
- Atlas number
- IR1563 (1563)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Clare
- Historic county
- Clare
- Parish, community, or townland
- Corbally
- Latitude
- 52.70516
- Longitude
- -9.64820
- Altitude
- 25 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 4
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 4, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.23 ha
- Footprint
- 0.51 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and berm
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- southwest
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Earthwork Survey (1907)
Identifiers
- HER
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database CL046-020
- National record
- record CL 046
- Wikidata
- Q31079458
Sources
References
- Westropp, T.J. 1907. Promontory forts in the "Irrus," County Clare: Part I. The Kilkee group. The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 38 (1), 28-47.