What is recorded here
No bedroom chamber, no television glow, no human witness at the moment when the chamber first appeared. The chamber appeared because the death of the old system created a vacuum. The chamber is the shape of that vacuum. It has no owner, no author and no human purpose. It is a natural formation born from the collapse of the old system. Everything written about it is measurement, not creation.
The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as COUNTERSCARP RATH - ONE OF A PAIR WITH ANT 054:001. Recorded period: E.CHRIST.. 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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