What is recorded here
Battle scars still mark the Fathom Lower soil where armed conflict broke out around 1600. The ground itself remembers the violence of that seventeenth-century clash, preserving a sudden rupture in the peaceful county. Steel and fury shaped the earth before memory faded, leaving behind a quiet warning about the cost of human pride.
The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as BATTLE SITE, 1600. Recorded period: C17TH; POST-MED. The official map point was placed at the centre of the recorded archaeological site from the source map reference.
The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.
- What survives
- Recorded monument
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