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Carncoagh
Antrim, Northern Ireland ยท Atlas NI4360
Location
- Atlas number
- NI4360 (4360)
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Antrim
- Historic county
- Antrim
- Parish, community, or townland
- Skerry
- National Grid reference
- D1367011070
- Latitude
- 54.93428
- Longitude
- -6.22736
- Altitude
- 261 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.62 ha
- Footprint
- 0.9 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- north, northeast, east, southeast, south, southwest, west, and northwest
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1906); Other (1990)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- ANT028:023
- HER
- Northern Ireland Sites and Monuments Record ANT028:023
- National record
- record ANT 028
- Wikidata
- Q31083815
Sources
References
- Northern Ireland Sites and Monuments Records