What is recorded here
Two earthen rings press together like cupped hands, holding a shape no ordinary farm needs. They stand in Ballykennedy under legal protection, marked only as early Christian on the official record. The join suggests two lives, two claims or two memories forced into one boundary. That much is visible. The rest belongs to the dark soil and the people who stopped asking questions.
The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as CONJOINED RATHS. 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.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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