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Haughey's Fort

Armagh, Northern Ireland · Atlas NI0662

Haughey's Fort is a contour fort and a multiple enclosure in Tray, Armagh, Northern Ireland.

Other names on the record: Tray.

It is recorded as both extant and likely destroyed, with a partial univallate and partial multivallate rampart form, surface evidence of earthen bank and stone wall, and an enclosed area of 10.42 hectares.

Survival on the ground may be uneven.

The topographic record places it on a hilltop and at 74 m.

The aspect is recorded as level.

Recorded land use includes pasture.

Dating evidence is recorded for before 1200 BC, 1200–800 BC, and 400 BC–AD 50 (C14). Reliability is recorded as A - High.

A scheduled monument number is recorded (ARM 12:13).

Location

Atlas number
NI0662 (662)
Country
Northern Ireland
Current county or unitary authority
Armagh
Historic county
Armagh
Parish, community, or townland
Tray
Latitude
54.34954
Longitude
-6.71626
Altitude
74 m

Form and condition

Type
contour fort and multiple enclosure
Condition
Extant and Likely destroyed
Morphology
partial univallate and partial multivallate
Complete rampart circuit
Yes
Number of ramparts
3
Ramparts by quadrant
NE 3, SE 3, SW 1, NW 3
Number of ditches
3
Possible original entrances
2
Breaks through the ramparts
2
Enclosed area
10.42 ha
Enclosure areas
1.78 ha, 6.38 ha, 10.42 ha
Footprint
10.42 ha
Enclosing works, as visible
earthen bank and stone wall
Enclosing works, excavated
earthen bank
Also recorded
ditches
Entrance forms
Simple Gap (South east); Simple Gap (North east)

Landscape

Topographic position
hilltop
Aspect
level
Land use
pasture

Dating

Dating
before 1200 BC, 1200–800 BC, and 400 BC–AD 50
Dating evidence
C14
Dating reliability
A - High

Interior and investigation

Interior excavation
pits and postholes
Finds
pottery, metal, metalworking, animal bones, lithics, and environmental material
Investigations
Other (1989); Geophysical Survey (1995); Other (1986-1987); Excavation (1987-1999)

Identifiers

Scheduled monument number
ARM 12:13
HER
Northern Ireland Sites and Monuments Record ARM012:013
National record
record ARM 012
Wikidata
Q31085327

Sources

References

  1. Aitchison, N. 1998. Late Bronze Age ritual at Haugheys Fort: the evidence of the deposited cup-and-ring marked stone. Emania, 31 _ 39.
  2. Anderson, R. 1989. Haugheys Fort: analysis of an insect death assemblage. Emania, 37 _ 42.
  3. Ballie, M. and Brown, D. 1991. A dendro-date from Haugheys Fort. Emania, 39 _ 40.
  4. Ballie, M. and Brown, D. 1998. Further evidence confirms the twelfth Century BC dendro-date from the inner ditch of Haugheys Fort. Emania, 45 _ 46.
  5. Boreland, D. 1996. Late Bronze Age pottery from Haugheys Fort. Emania, 21 _ 28.
  6. Conway, M. 2006. Survey and excavation in the Navan environs with «Time Team: Creeveroe, Haugheys Fort and Ballydoo. Emania, 29 _ 52.
  7. Corlett, C. 2000. Cup-and-rings, and the mapping of Haugheys Fort: a suggestion. Emania, 77 _ 78.
  8. Hall, A. 2000. A puffball from Haugheys Fort, Co. Armagh, Northern Ireland, or the Armagh «apple unmasked. Emania, 75 _ 76.
  9. Hawthorne, M. 1991. A preliminary analysis of wood remains from Haugheys Fort. Emania, 34 _ 38.
  10. Horn, J. Forthcoming. The dating of hillforts in Britain and Ireland. Unpublished PhD thesis, University of Edinburgh.
  11. Mallory, J. 1988. Trial excavations at Haugheys Fort. Emania, 5 _ 20.
  12. Mallory, J. 1991. Excavations at Haugheys Fort: 1989 _ 1990. Emania, 10 _ 26.
  13. Mallory, J. 1995. Haugheys Fort and the Navan Complex in the Late Bronze Age. In Waddell, J and Shee Twohig, E. Ireland in the Bronze Age. The Stationary Office, Dublin, 73 _ 86.
  14. Mallory, J. 2000a. Haugheys Fort, Tray. I, Bennett. (ed) Excavations 1998. Wordwell, Dublin, 3.
  15. Mallory, J. 2000b. Haugheys Fort, Tray. E, Bair_ad. (ed) Excavations 1999. Wordwell, Dublin, 7.
  16. Mallory, J. and Warner, R. 1988. The date of Haugheys Fort. Emania, 36 _ 40.
  17. Mallory, J., McAlister, J. and Davison, J. 1989. Ditch sediments from Haugheys Fort. Emania, 36.
  18. Mallory, J., Moore, D. and Canning, L. 1996. Excavations at Haugheys Fort 1991 and 1995. Emania, 5 _ 21.
  19. McCormick, F. 1988. Animal bones from Haugheys Fort. Emania, 24 _ 27.
  20. McCormick, F. 1991. The animal bones from Haugheys Fort: second report. Emania, 27 _ 33.
  21. Murphy, E. and McCormick, F. 1996. The faunal remains from the inner ditch of Haugheys Fort: third report: 1991 excavation. Emania, 47 _ 50.
  22. Neill, M. 1996. Haugheys Fort excavation 1991: analysis of wood remains. Emania, 28 _ 39.
  23. Weir, D. and Conway, M. 1988. Haugheys Fort: a preliminary palaeobotanical analysis. Emania, 28 _ 31.