Tullyhogue Fort

Whether the court previously had been a place of worship is open. There, each leading member of the O'Neill was installed in office. Tullaghoge is located in the townland of Glebe Ballymully, south of Cooktown, between the town and the village of Stewartstown and first belonged to the O'Hagans who were responsible with the O'Cahans for the establishment.

Equivalent to the coronation of a continental monarch gave the inauguration ( the inauguration ) in Ireland each individual the right to the title ( here the O'Neills ) to carry and to be head of the family of that clan, who has ruled for centuries over Tyrone. The territory of O'Neill's ( first Cenél nEógain, then written Uí Néill ), was initially very much greater than that which is covered by the modern County Tyrone. Some of its rulers laid claim high king of Ireland to be.

The inauguration ceremony began with the throwing of a shoe over the head of the new O'Neill - chief, to indicate that he would follow in the footsteps of his distinguished ancestors. In the last years of her life, Queen Elizabeth I of England was determined, Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone to overthrow, and deprive him title and lordship. Sir Charles Blount, 8th Lord of Mountjoy and Lord Lieutenant of Ireland vowed this in April 1603 to give up the name and the title of O'Neill.

The first O'Neill to have been put on Tullaghoge on a stone throne and blessed by St. Patrick. 1602 Mountjoy broke this venerable throne, the Richard Bartlett has drawn even in his 1602 Tyrone Map (No. 511). Not even remnants of them survived. What survived, today is the rich wooded area. One from a low wall surrounded the central area with a larger wall and far separated from a second trench extending concentrically. The earth walls define the boundaries of the ceremonial area; they have not been constructed to protect the point of attack.