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Claggan (Achill Island)
Mayo (Achill Island), Republic of Ireland ยท Atlas IR1818
Location
- Atlas number
- IR1818 (1818)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Mayo (Achill Island)
- Historic county
- Mayo
- Parish, community, or townland
- Claggan
- Latitude
- 53.88367
- Longitude
- -9.97742
- Altitude
- 10 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 0, SW 0, NW 0
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.3 ha
- Footprint
- 0.34 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- southwest
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Identifiers
- HER
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database MA065-015001
- National record
- record MA 065
- Wikidata
- Q31118299
Sources
References
- www.archaeology.ie