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Forkill
Armagh, Northern Ireland ยท Atlas NI0786
Location
- Atlas number
- NI0786 (786)
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Armagh
- Historic county
- Armagh
- Parish, community, or townland
- Orior Upper
- Latitude
- 54.07717
- Longitude
- -6.43660
- Altitude
- 263 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
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 4.12 ha
- Footprint
- 4.24 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1946)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- ARM 31:25
- HER
- Northern Ireland Sites and Monuments Record ARM031:025
- National record
- record ARM 031
- Wikidata
- Q31085361
Sources
References
- Davis, O. and Mogey, J. 1946. Large prehistoric enclosures in Ireland. Ulster Journal of Archaeology 9, 21-23.