Altagore Cashel
The Altagore Cashel or Dun von Altagore ( Irish Alt an Ghabhair - German "valley wall of the goat" ) is west of the coastal road from Cushendun to Ballycastle , about 2.0 km north of Cushendun in County Antrim in Northern Ireland .
The inner diameter of the oval dun is about 15.6 by 17.1 meters and the dry stone masonry of the round building survived in places up to a height of about 2.4 meters. There are remains of a staircase that led to the wall.
It has an access widened by collapse in the east and an intramural basement in the north which has collapsed and is blocked with stones. The Cashel is one of the smallest stone forts ever, but the best preserved in County Antrim.
Cashels are regionally known on the Irish island as Caher, Cathair or Dun or more generally as Steinfort ( English Stonefort ). They are mostly round, irregular, and often oval enclosures. Their dating and function are similar to the Raths, which consist of ditches and earth walls . They are very rarely enclosed by trenches. While Raths occur in the other regions, the Cashels occur where trenches are difficult to dig but stone material is available.
The Passage Tomb by Cross is located on a hill in Townland Cross near Cushendun.
Altagore Cashel is a Scheduled Monument .
To the south is the Ballycleagh stone line .
See also
literature
- Matthew Stout : The Irish Ringfort (Irish Settlement Studies, Number 5) , Four Courts Press, Dublin 1997, ISBN 1-85182-582-7 .
- Bruce Proudfoot : Irish Raths and Cashels: Some Notes on Chronology, Origins and Survivals In: Ulster Journal of Archeology Third Series, Volume 33 (1970), pp. 37-48.
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Coordinates: 55 ° 8 ′ 43.3 " N , 6 ° 2 ′ 28" W.