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Clenagh
Clare, Republic of Ireland ยท Atlas IR3059
Location
- Atlas number
- IR3059 (3059)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Clare
- Historic county
- Clare
- Parish, community, or townland
- Clenagh
- Latitude
- 52.73002
- Longitude
- -8.94778
- Altitude
- 40 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.43 ha
- Footprint
- 0.84 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating evidence
- C14
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- postholes
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1842); Earthwork Survey (1906); Other (1913); Earthwork Survey (1994); Geophysical Survey (1994); Excavation (1994)
Identifiers
- HER
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database CL051-045
- National record
- record CL 051
- Wikidata
- Q31080944
Sources
References
- Westropp, T. 1913. Types of ring-forts remaining in eastern Clare (Clonlara, Broadford, Cullaun, and Clooney). Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 32 C, 58 - 77.
- Grogan, E. 2005. The North Munster Project Vol. 1: The Later Prehistoric Landscape of South-East Clare. Wordwell, Dublin.