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Port Durlainne
Mayo, Republic of Ireland ยท Atlas IR1639
Location
- Atlas number
- IR1639 (1639)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Mayo
- Historic county
- Mayo
- Parish, community, or townland
- Port Durlainne
- Latitude
- 54.32729
- Longitude
- -9.73353
- Altitude
- 175 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Likely destroyed
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 0
- Number of ditches
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- north
- Land use
- heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1839); 1st Identified Written Reference (1912)
Identifiers
- HER
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database MA004-001
- National record
- record MA 004
- Wikidata
- Q31072455
Sources
References
- Casey, M. 1999 The coastal promontory forts of Ireland. A survey of counties Sligo, Mayo, Galway and Clare. Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway
- 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.