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Navan Fort

Navan Fort (Eamhain Mhacha) is a large prehistoric hilltop ceremonial enclosure near Armagh, Northern Ireland, defined by a broad circular bank and an internal ditch. At its centre is a high earthen mound and the impression of a ring-barrow; archaeological evidence shows large timber buildings once stood here and were used for ritual activity in the Iron Age.

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Its prime

95 BC

Today

Partial ruin

As it stood in 95 BC

What Navan Fort looked like in its prime.

On the hilltop a vast circular earthwork ring — a low turf bank with an inner ditch — encircles the summit. At the western heart stands a monumental timber roundhouse roughly 40 m across with an outer timber wall and four concentric rings of oak posts supporting a high conical thatch roof; a single massive central oak pillar rises through the roofline. The ground is grassy, with worn earthen ramps to the entrance and the surrounding Armagh plain visible beyond.

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8 places to explore in 95 BC.

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Approach from the southwest (exterior)On the outer bank looking into the enclosureWestern entrance rampAt the entrance to the central roundhouseBeside the central oak pillarBetween the concentric rings of postsEastern figure-of-eight structure (exterior/interior)From the rampart looking out over the plain

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