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Foohagh
Clare, Republic of Ireland ยท Atlas IR1565
Location
- Atlas number
- IR1565 (1565)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Clare
- Historic county
- Clare
- Parish, community, or townland
- Foohagh
- Latitude
- 52.67073
- Longitude
- -9.69575
- Altitude
- 21 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 2, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.3 ha
- Footprint
- 0.7 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and stone wall
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- west
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- rectangular stone structures
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1839); Earthwork Survey (1907)
Identifiers
- HER
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database CL055-003
- National record
- record CL 055
- Wikidata
- Q31079603
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.