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Derrynaseer
Antrim, Northern Ireland ยท Atlas NI0789
Location
- Atlas number
- NI0789 (789)
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Antrim
- Historic county
- Antrim
- Parish, community, or townland
- Aghagallon
- Latitude
- 54.50873
- Longitude
- -6.29294
- Altitude
- 35 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- 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
- 1.44 ha
- Footprint
- 1.77 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and ridge
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and built-up land
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1838); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1842)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- ANT 66:1
- HER
- Northern Ireland Sites and Monuments Record ANT066:001
- National record
- record ANT 066
- Wikidata
- Q31083708
Sources
References
- Fagan, T. 1938. O.S. Memoirs.