What is recorded here
Knockcairn holds a counterscarp rath, an earthen defences built to keep unwanted life outside its circle. The chamber may have held a family, a herdsman or a frightened child during a storm. Its buried line still draws a boundary between the living world and the dark patience of the earth.
The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as COUNTERSCARP RATH. Recorded period: E.CHRIST.. 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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