What is recorded here
Fort Field is an unlocated enclosure in Magherarville, County Armagh, preserved only in an official name rather than a visible boundary. The uncertainty is not a failure of imagination but a reminder that human memory often outlives the shape it remembers. A field may have been a fortress, a fortress a field, and both a temporary arrangement of people who believed they could resist forgetting.
The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as ENCLOSURE: FORT FIELD (unlocated). Recorded period: UNCERTAIN. 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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