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Knockaun
Mayo, Republic of Ireland ยท Atlas IR1634
Location
- Atlas number
- IR1634 (1634)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Mayo
- Historic county
- Mayo
- Parish, community, or townland
- Knockaun
- Latitude
- 54.32784
- Longitude
- -9.34833
- Altitude
- 45 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 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.1 ha
- Footprint
- 0.1 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- rectangular stone structures
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1393); Other (1802); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1838); Other (1838); Other (1841); Earthwork Survey (1912)
Identifiers
- HER
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database MA007-001001
- National record
- record MA 007
- Wikidata
- Q31072440
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.
- O'Donovan, J. 1856. Annals of the Kingdom of Ireland by the Four Masters Volume 1 (1856). Hodges and Smith and Co. Dublin.
- Otway, C. 1841. Sketches in Erris and Tirawley. Dublin