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Achill Beg
Mayo (Achill Beg), Republic of Ireland ยท Atlas IR1778
Location
- Atlas number
- IR1778 (1778)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Mayo (Achill Beg)
- Historic county
- Mayo
- Parish, community, or townland
- Achill Beg
- Latitude
- 53.87204
- Longitude
- -9.96496
- Altitude
- 5 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
- 0.01 ha
- Footprint
- 0.05 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and stone wall
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- northeast
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1839); 1st Identified Written Reference (1914)
Identifiers
- HER
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database MA065-032001
- National record
- record MA 065
- Wikidata
- Q31119636
Sources
References
- Westropp, T.J. 1914. The promontory forts and early remains of islands of Connacht. The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 44, 297-337.