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Aghadoon (Achadh Dúin)
Mayo, Republic of Ireland · Atlas IR1670
Location
- Atlas number
- IR1670 (1670)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Mayo
- Historic county
- Mayo
- Parish, community, or townland
- Aghadoon
- Latitude
- 54.28316
- Longitude
- -10.02821
- Altitude
- 10 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
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.41 ha
- Footprint
- 0.43 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- west
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1894); Earthwork Survey (1912)
Identifiers
- HER
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database MA002-006
- National record
- record MA 002
- Wikidata
- Q31072578
Sources
References
- Browne, C. 1895. The ethnography of the Mullet, Inishkea Islands, and Portnacloy, Co. Mayo. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 19 587- 637
- O'Donovan, J. 1838. Ordnance Survey Letters, Co. Mayo
- Otway, C. 1841. Sketches in Erris and Tirawley. Dublin
- Pococke, R. 1752. Pococke's Tour of Ireland (ed. G. Stokes), Dublin 1891.
- 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.