What is recorded here
Killard Lower and Killard Upper hide an unlocated battle site, preserving a violent event without revealing whether it belonged to humans, horses or something else entirely. The absence of a precise marker does not diminish the danger; it widens the chamber where imagination must complete what measurement refused. People may have bled there, chariots may have broken, or the land itself may have fought back against intrusion. The missing point becomes the essence, forcing every participant to supply the shape of the wound with memory, fear or desire.
The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as BATTLE SITE (unlocated). Recorded period: UNCERTAIN. 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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