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Knockaun
Mayo, Republic of Ireland ยท Atlas IR1632
Location
- Atlas number
- IR1632 (1632)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Mayo
- Historic county
- Mayo
- Parish, community, or townland
- Knockaun
- Latitude
- 54.32733
- Longitude
- -9.34536
- Altitude
- 38 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 1, SW 1, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.36 ha
- Footprint
- 0.49 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- north
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1393); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1839); Earthwork Survey (1839); Earthwork Survey (1912)
Identifiers
- HER
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database MA007-003
- National record
- record MA 007
- Wikidata
- Q31072412
Sources
References
- Westropp, T.J. 1912. The promontory forts and early remains of the coasts of County Mayo. Part 1- The north coast (Tirawley and Erris). The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 42, 59-139.