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Carravindoon (Rathlin Island)
Antrim (Rathlin Island), Northern Ireland ยท Atlas NI1495
Location
- Atlas number
- NI1495 (1495)
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Antrim (Rathlin Island)
- Historic county
- Antrim
- Parish, community, or townland
- Carravindoon
- Latitude
- 55.27190
- Longitude
- -6.17919
- Altitude
- 1 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 0, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.3 ha
- Footprint
- 0.4 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- east
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1839); 1st Identified Written Reference (1887); Earthwork Survey (1989)
Identifiers
- HER
- Northern Ireland Sites and Monuments Record ANT001:058
- National record
- record ANT 001
- Wikidata
- Q31119466
Sources
References
- www.ni-environment.co.uk- Archaeological Survey of Northern Ireland field report.
- O'Laverty,J. 1887 Vol.IV 376