What is recorded here
Counterfort walls still stand beside four house platforms in Aughnacleagh and Finkiltagh, marking a small defended settlement from the early Christian period. The shape suggests people who expected trouble and answered it with stone, room for family, and enough strength to keep the land familiar.
The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as COUNTERSCARP RATH with FOUR HOUSE PLATFORMS: GRANNYSTOWN. 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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