What is recorded here

Derryard still carries the ghost of a castle no map can pin. The official record calls it an unlocated post-medieval or seventeenth-century site, yet the land remembers the shape of walls that once cut the air. People may have built, broken, or forgotten the place before ink dried on any ledger. The castle remains absent only from human tools, not from the life of the field.

The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as CASTLE (O.S. memoir site, unlocated). Recorded period: POST-MED; C17TH. The official map point was placed at the centre of the recorded archaeological site from the source map reference.

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