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Navan Fort, County Armagh

Navan Fort

Navan Fort is an large, ancient ringfort in County Armagh, famous in legend as the seat of the Kings of Ulster, and known in the ancient poems as Emaın Macha.

According to Irish mythology, Emain Macha was one of the great royal sites of pre-Christian Gaelic Ireland and the capital of the Ulaid; the men of Ulster. All the buildings have long since disappeared, but the site retains a grand circular enclosure containing a circular mound and the remains of a ring barrow in its centre, where the kings' hall once stood. (Read more)