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Aughernagailliagh (Eoghair na Gcaille)
Mayo, Republic of Ireland ยท Atlas IR1672
Location
- Atlas number
- IR1672 (1672)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Mayo
- Historic county
- Mayo
- Parish, community, or townland
- Aughernagailliagh
- Latitude
- 54.26908
- Longitude
- -10.08044
- Altitude
- 39 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
- 1.21 ha
- Footprint
- 1.52 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and stone wall
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank and stone wall
- Also recorded
- chevaux de frise and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Passage-way/Corridor (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
- Interior surface
- round stone structures and rectangular stone structures
- Finds
- metal
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1752); Other (1819); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1839); Earthwork Survey (1841); Earthwork Survey (1895); Earthwork Survey (1912); Excavation (1992)
Identifiers
- HER
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database MA009-001001
- National record
- record MA 009
- Wikidata
- Q31072591
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
- 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 Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway
- Harbison, P 1971 Wooden and stone chevaux-de frise in central and western Europe. Proc Prehist Soc 37 (1971), 195-225 (206-7, fig 11)
- 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.
- Trotter, J. B. 1819. Walks through Ireland in the years 1812, 1814 and 1817. London.
- 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.