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Moveen West
Clare, Republic of Ireland ยท Atlas IR1587
Location
- Atlas number
- IR1587 (1587)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Clare
- Historic county
- Clare
- Parish, community, or townland
- Moveen East
- Latitude
- 52.65741
- Longitude
- -9.72098
- Altitude
- 20 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
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.98 ha
- Footprint
- 1.08 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- north and level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1839)
Identifiers
- HER
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database CL055-008001
- National record
- record CL 055
- Wikidata
- Q31080427
Sources