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Galboly Lower
Antrim, Northern Ireland ยท Atlas NI1488
Location
- Atlas number
- NI1488 (1488)
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Antrim
- Historic county
- Antrim
- Parish, community, or townland
- Gallboly Lower
- Latitude
- 55.04589
- Longitude
- -5.96540
- Altitude
- 50 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.08 ha
- Footprint
- 0.23 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- parkland and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1839); 1st Identified Written Reference (1887); Earthwork Survey (1992); Other (2000)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- ANT 20:3
- HER
- Northern Ireland Sites and Monuments Record ANT020:003
- National record
- record ANT 020
- Wikidata
- Q31083767
Sources
References
- www.ni-environment.co.uk
- Lawlor, H.C. 1939. Mote and mote-and-bailey castles in de Courcy's principality of Ulster. Ulster Journal of Archaeology 2, 46-54.
- OS memoirs of Ardclinis 1832, Box 2, 11, 1, 6