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ENCLOSURE

ENCLOSURE, rath?

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ENCLOSURE is a rath in County Down, Ireland, where local people still use the word for a bounded place rather than a formal land claim. The name suggests a circle drawn around life itself: a field, a memory, a relationship, or a room made private by attention. That act of drawing a line can be creative or cruel, depending on whether the boundary protects what is inside or strangles what belongs to everyone.
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.

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