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Aghaglasheen (Achadh Ghlaisên)
Mayo, Republic of Ireland · Atlas IR1861
Location
- Atlas number
- IR1861 (1861)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Mayo
- Historic county
- Mayo
- Parish, community, or townland
- Aghaglasheen (Achadh Ghlaisn)
- Latitude
- 54.26833
- Longitude
- -9.94040
- 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 0, SE 0, SW 1, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.05 ha
- Footprint
- 0.1 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- northeast
- Land use
- heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Identifiers
- HER
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database MA010-003
- National record
- record MA 010
- Wikidata
- Q31073868
Sources