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Strake (Clare Island)
Mayo (Clare Island), Republic of Ireland ยท Atlas IR1809
Location
- Atlas number
- IR1809 (1809)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Mayo (Clare Island)
- Historic county
- Mayo
- Parish, community, or townland
- Strake
- Latitude
- 53.79153
- Longitude
- -10.02019
- Altitude
- 15 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 0, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.09 ha
- Footprint
- 0.15 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- southwest
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- rectangular stone structures
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1839); Earthwork Survey (1914)
Identifiers
- HER
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database MA084-005001
- National record
- record MA 084
- Wikidata
- Q31119669
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