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Achill Beg
Mayo (Achill Beg), Republic of Ireland ยท Atlas IR1791
Location
- Atlas number
- IR1791 (1791)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Mayo (Achill Beg)
- Historic county
- Mayo
- Parish, community, or townland
- Achill Beg
- Latitude
- 53.86665
- Longitude
- -9.96427
- Altitude
- 10 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort and multiple enclosure
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 3, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 4
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 1.92 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.12 ha, 0.59 ha, 1.92 ha
- Footprint
- 2.29 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and stone wall
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- northeast
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
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 MA075-001001
- National record
- record MA 075
- Wikidata
- Q31119645
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