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Moveen East
Clare, Republic of Ireland ยท Atlas IR1566
Location
- Atlas number
- IR1566 (1566)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Clare
- Historic county
- Clare
- Parish, community, or townland
- Moveen East
- Latitude
- 52.66626
- Longitude
- -9.69794
- Altitude
- 5 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 0
- Number of ditches
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.23 ha
- Footprint
- 0.42 ha
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 (1839); 1st Identified Written Reference (1907)
Identifiers
- HER
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database CL055-002
- National record
- record CL 055
- Wikidata
- Q31079696
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.