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Gladree (An Gileadraigh)
Mayo, Republic of Ireland ยท Atlas IR1692
Location
- Atlas number
- IR1692 (1692)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Mayo
- Historic county
- Mayo
- Parish, community, or townland
- Gladree
- Latitude
- 54.26098
- Longitude
- -10.07640
- Altitude
- 5 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.03 ha
- Footprint
- 0.1 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- northwest
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1752); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1839); Other (1894); Earthwork Survey (1912)
Identifiers
- HER
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database MA009-002001
- National record
- record MA 009
- Wikidata
- Q31072611
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
- 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.