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Capard
Laois, Republic of Ireland ยท Atlas IR3055
Location
- Atlas number
- IR3055 (3055)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Laois
- Historic county
- Laois
- Parish, community, or townland
- Capard
- Latitude
- 53.12149
- Longitude
- -7.43331
- Altitude
- 274 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.8 ha
- Footprint
- 0.87 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and ridge
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- commercial forestry and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1906); Other (1995)
Identifiers
- HER
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database LA007-002
- National record
- record LA 007
- Wikidata
- Q31118616
Sources
References
- Sweetman, D, Alcock, O and Moran, B (1995) Archaeological Inventory of County Laois._The Stationary Office, Dublin.