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Dunineny Castle
Antrim, Northern Ireland ยท Atlas NI1485
Location
- Atlas number
- NI1485 (1485)
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Antrim
- Historic county
- Antrim
- Parish, community, or townland
- Townparks (Ballycastle)
- Latitude
- 55.21159
- Longitude
- -6.25105
- Altitude
- 34 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 1, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.1 ha
- Footprint
- 0.17 ha
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank, stone wall, and berm
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- rectangular stone structures
- Finds
- pottery
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1831); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1839); Other (1983); Excavation (2004)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- ANT 4:1
- HER
- Northern Ireland Sites and Monuments Record ANT004:001
- National record
- record ANT 004
- Wikidata
- Q31083756
Sources
References
- www.ni-environment.co.uk
- OS memoirs of Ramoan Fagan 1838, Box 15, 5, 2, 65-67
- Proudfoot V.B and Wilson, B.C.S 1961. Further excavations at Larrybane Promontory Fort, Co. Antrim. Ulster Journal of Archaeology 24-25, 91-115.
- McNeill, T.E. 1983. The stone castles of northern County Antrim. Ulster Journal of Archaeology 46, 101-28.
- McNeill, T.E. 2004. Excavations at Dunineny Castle, Co. Antrim. Medieval Archaeology 48, 167-200.