What is recorded here
ENCLOSURE is the act of taking common land and closing it to the people who once walked it freely. In County Down, that closure may have starved neighbours of firewood, pasture or passage while enriching the owner. The field did not become dead; it became owned, and ownership changed who could live beside it.
The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as ENCLOSURE - RATH?. 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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