forts historical antrim

Lurigethan Fort is at a height of 385 m. Probably about 3000 years ago Bronze or Iron Age men built ramparts to enclose an area of about 16 ha. These people could best be described as warlike farmers. The site would have been rather bleak for a permanent settlement and may have been a market or trading area....

Water Worship Ritual Site dating back to Bronze Age. Site comprises two pairs of earthen circles but exact date and function have not yet been confirmed....

The custom of building lake-dwellings or crannogs may have started with the Mesolithic hunters and food-gatherers who arrived in Ireland 9,000 years ago, though no example excavated so far has been dated earlier than the Bronze Age. Most in fact appear to belong to the Early Christian period, and doubtless many were inhabited well into Medieval times and beyond. Lough-na-Crannagh, a small limpid lake cradled in a hollow on the summit of Fair Head on the north Antrim coast, contains perhaps...