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Aghnahoo

Tyrone, Northern Ireland ยท Atlas NI0811

Location

Atlas number
NI0811 (811)
Country
Northern Ireland
Current county or unitary authority
Tyrone
Historic county
Tyrone
Parish, community, or townland
Termonamonga
Latitude
54.66934
Longitude
-7.65978
Altitude
202 m

Form and condition

Type
contour fort and multiple enclosure
Condition
Extant
Morphology
partial bivallate and partial multivallate
Complete rampart circuit
Yes
Number of ramparts
3
Ramparts by quadrant
NE 3, SE 2, SW 2, NW 3
Number of ditches
0
Possible original entrances
0
Breaks through the ramparts
6
Enclosed area
1.5 ha
Enclosure areas
0.19 ha, 0.62 ha, 1.5 ha
Footprint
1.55 ha
Enclosing works, as visible
rubble
Also recorded
gang working

Landscape

Topographic position
hilltop
Aspect
level
Land use
scrub or bracken and heather moorland

Dating

Dating
undated
Dating reliability
D - None

Interior and investigation

Interior surface
rectangular stone structures
Investigations
Other (1940); Earthwork Survey (1986)

Identifiers

Scheduled monument number
TYR 23:16
HER
Northern Ireland Sites and Monuments Record TYR023:016
National record
record TYR 023
Wikidata
Q31085148

Sources

References

  1. Chart, D. 1940. A Preliminary Survey of the Ancient Monuments of Northern Ireland. H.M. Stationery office, Belfast.