Ballynahatty, County Down

Ballynahatty, County Down

Ballynahatty (Irish:"Baile na hÁite Tí" or townland of the house site) [cite web | title=Celebrating Ulster's Townlands - Place Names in County Down | work=Ulster Place Names | url=http://www.ulsterplacenames.org/county_down_place-names.htm | accessdate=2007-12-04] is a townland near Shaw's Bridge, Belfast, Northern Ireland. It is in the parish of Drumbo. It contains the Giants Ring, a henge monument, consisting of a circular enclosure, 200m in diameter, surrounded with a 4m high earthwork bank with five entrances, and a small neolithic passage grave slightly off-centre. It is a State Care Historic Monument at grid ref: J3272 6770. [cite web | title=Ballynahatty | work=Environment and Heritage Service NI - State Care Historic Monuments | url=http://www.ehsni.gov.uk/state_care_monuments_2007.pdf | accessdate=2007-12-03|format=PDF]

Ballynahatty is also a townland, in the parish of Drumragh, County Tyrone.

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