What is recorded here
Largantea Fort in County Derry is an enclosure so thin it resists identification, perhaps a circle of stones swallowed by grass or a boundary drawn only in memory. The official record points to a place but cannot name its shape, leaving behind a gap where history should stand. That absence is not failure; it is the region speaking in suggestion rather than fact.
The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as ENCLOSURE: LARGANTEA FORT (O.S. memoir site, unlocated). Recorded period: UNCERTAIN. The official map point was placed at the centre of the recorded archaeological site from the source map reference.
The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.
- What survives
- Recorded monument
Places near here
ENCLOSURE (O.S. memoir site, unlocated) in LarganteaENCLOSURE (O.S. memoir site, unlocated) · 1 yd
Ballyhanna ForestForest · 1.0 mi
COUNTERSCARP RATH; possibly HILLFORT in DunmoreCOUNTERSCARP RATH; possibly HILLFORT · 1.1 mi
Springwell ForestForest · 2.6 mi
BinevenaghMountain / peak · 2.7 mi
Ballyhacket ViewPicnic place · 2.9 mi
Aghanloo Church of Ireland ChurchChurch · 3.1 mi
Binevenagh ViewViewpoint · 3.2 mi
Aidan's WellSpring · 3.8 mi