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Dalkey Island
Dublin, Republic of Ireland · Atlas IR1844
Location
- Atlas number
- IR1844 (1844)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Dublin
- Historic county
- Dublin
- Parish, community, or townland
- Dlakey Island
- Latitude
- 53.27355
- Longitude
- -6.08666
- Altitude
- 7 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 1, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.25 ha
- Footprint
- 0.29 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- northwest
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- AD 400–800
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- pits, postholes, and rectangular structures
- Finds
- pottery, metal, metalworking, human bones, animal bones, and lithics
- Investigations
- Other (1998); Excavation (1956-1959)
Identifiers
- HER
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database DU023-029001
- National record
- record DU 023
- Wikidata
- Q31070250
Sources
References
- Doyle, I. W. 1998. The early medieval activity at Dalkey Island, Co. Dublin: a re-assessment. Journal of
- Irish Archaeology 9, 89-103
- Liversage, G. D. 1968. Excavations at Dalkey Island, Co. Dublin 1956_1959. Proceedings of the Royal
- Irish Academy 66C, 53-233