Historic Environment
Ballywholan
Tyrone

Contact

Phone:
028 9082 3207
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Additional information

Open to the public:

No

Grid reference:
H5780045470
SM number:
TYR 065:001

About Carrignahaltora

The site is situated on a high drumlin overlooking the Co. Monaghan border which is some 100m to the south and consists of a settlement of three hut sites, probably booley huts (a kind of seasonal settlement in upland zones), each of which are rectangular, drystone foundations. Two of the three examples are built in shallow scoops which have been dug into the hillside. There is some suggestion that this site was used for Mass during Penal Times – the Irish name Carricknahaltora means ‘rock of the altar’. No obvious stone altar survives, though this may have been a temporary structure.

Other historic places you can visit:

Carrignahaltora
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