Tullaghoge Fort
Tullaghoge Fort (also Tullyhogue Fort ; Irish Tulaigh Óg or Tulach Óg , "hill of the boys") is a round hill, a kind of Rath and from the 11th to the end of the 16th century an inauguration point in County Tyrone in Northern Ireland . The facility is a Scheduled Monument .
It remains to be seen whether the square was previously a place of worship. There every leading member of the Uí Néill ( Anglicized O'Neill) was installed in his office. Tullaghoge is located in the townland of Ballymully Glebe, south of Cookstown , between the city and the village of Stewartstown and initially belonged to the Uí Ágáin (O'Hagan), who were responsible with the Uí Cathain (O'Cahan) for the establishment.
Equivalent to the coronation of a continental monarch, the inauguration (inauguration) in Ireland gave each individual the right to bear the title (here the title of Ó Néill) and to be the head of the family of the clan that ruled Tyrone for centuries. The domain of the Uí Néill (initially called Cenél nEógain) was at times much larger than that which is covered by the modern County Tyrone. Some of its rulers claimed to be High King of Ireland.
The inauguration ceremony began with the throwing of a shoe over the head of the new O'Neill chief to indicate that he would be following in the footsteps of his distinguished ancestors. In the last years of her life, Queen Elizabeth I of England was determined to overthrow Hugh O'Neill , Earl of Tyrone, and strip him of title and rule. Before Charles Blount , 8th Lord of Mountjoy and Lord Lieutenant of Ireland , he vowed to give up the name and title of O'Neill in April 1603.
The first Ó Néill is said to have been installed on Tullaghoge on the inauguration stone Leac na Rí (“Stone Slab of Kings”) and was blessed by St. Patrick . In 1602 Mountjoy smashed the stone built into a throne that Richard Bartlett had drawn in 1602 in his Tyrone Map (no. 511). Not even remnants of it have survived. What survived is what is now richly wooded. A central area surrounded by a low rampart with a larger rampart and a second ditch, which runs concentrically, far apart. The earth walls define the boundaries of the ceremonial area; they were not built to protect the site from attack.
Fragments of Mesolithic flint tools dating from before 5000 BC were found below the hill in 2014 during preparatory work for the construction of a visitor center . When Ireland was settled by hunters and gatherers.
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Individual evidence
- ^ Ancient artefacts at Tullaghoge. In: Belfast Telegraph . February 15, 2015, accessed March 29, 2017 .
Coordinates: 54 ° 36 '36.6 " N , 6 ° 43' 25.9" W.