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Enclosure/ Rath (Possible) in Ballykeel

Enclosure/ Rath (Possible)
Enclosure/ Rath (Possible) in Ballykeel
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Enclosure or rath in Ballykeel, County Down, may be a boundary marker, a farm yard, or a forgotten dwelling. The earth itself may have drawn the line before any human hand did. If people lived there, they measured space, claimed space, or simply stopped wandering. The uncertainty is the point. A place half-remembered keeps more life inside it than a place fully named.
The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as Enclosure/ Rath (Possible). 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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