What is recorded here

Marianne measured the shallow ditch at Broagh while Quaker children chased each other across the flat grass above it. She imagined that people had lived inside the double bank long before they laid simple stones beside it, and she liked the idea that the dead had reused a place already shaped by human hands. The children called it the old wall and ran their palms along its edge, certain that marble could not be angrier than skin.

The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as BIVALLATE RATH reused as QUAKER GRAVEYARD. Recorded period: E.CHRIST.; POST-MED; MODERN. The official map point was placed at the centre of the recorded archaeological site from the source map reference.

Bivallate rath, originally a circular earthwork enclosure of the Early Christian period, later reused as a Quaker graveyard in the post-medieval and modern periods. Its reuse reflects the long-standing cultural and religious significance of the site in the local community.

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