What is recorded here
Bivallate Rath in Ballylone Little is a scheduled archaeological site in County Down, Ireland. The official record identifies it as a bivallate rath, meaning two defensive rings rather than one. That much is clear. What is missing is the life that moved through those rings, the doors they kept shut, the fields they watched, and the reason the land remembered the shape.
The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as BIVALLATE RATH. Recorded period: E.CHRIST.. Recorded protection: Scheduled. 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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