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Dungannon Fort
Derry, Northern Ireland ยท Atlas NI4356
Location
- Atlas number
- NI4356 (4356)
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Derry
- Historic county
- Derry
- Parish, community, or townland
- Dunboe
- National Grid reference
- C7596035040
- Latitude
- 55.15670
- Longitude
- -6.80914
- Altitude
- 55 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 0, SW 0, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.12 ha
- Footprint
- 0.2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- east, southeast, south, southwest, and west
- Land use
- woodland and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1832); Other (1984)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- LDY002:006
- HER
- Northern Ireland Sites and Monuments Record LDY002:006
- National record
- record LDY 002
- Wikidata
- Q31085048
Sources