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Lurigethan
Antrim, Northern Ireland ยท Atlas NI0807
Location
- Atlas number
- NI0807 (807)
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Antrim
- Historic county
- Antrim
- Parish, community, or townland
- Layd
- Latitude
- 55.06208
- Longitude
- -6.08030
- Altitude
- 343 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 6
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 6, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 5
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 9.57 ha
- Footprint
- 9.74 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and inland promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1940); Other (1992)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- ANT 20:8
- HER
- Northern Ireland Sites and Monuments Record ANT020:008
- National record
- record ANT 020
- Wikidata
- Q31083738
Sources
References
- Chart, D. 1940. A Preliminary Survey of the Ancient Monuments of Northern Ireland. H.M. Stationery office, Belfast.