What is recorded here
In 567 AD, an unrecorded battle raged somewhere in Lemnaroy, leaving no surviving name for the field, the leaders, or the dead. The absence is not emptiness; it is a seam where memory broke and refused to re-form. Whatever happened there, the earth kept it without witness, and the region carries the shape of that lost violence still.
The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as BATTLE SITE, 567 AD (unlocated). Recorded period: E.CHRIST.. The official map point was placed at the centre of the recorded archaeological site from the source map reference.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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