What is recorded here

National Monument 625 in Ballylanders preserves a thirty-five metre earthen ring on flat grassland, its eastern edge cut by a modern drain. The fort still stands as a raised circular platform, while faint curving lines in the field to the southwest may belong to the same old workplace. People probably shaped that grassland long before the townland boundary was drawn, leaving a simple round mark that resistance and memory can still touch.

National Monument No. 625. Situated on flat grassland 60m S of stream marking townland boundary with Killeen. Well preserved platform type ringfort consisting of a raised circular area (approx. diam. 35m N-S) enclosed by an earthen bank intersected at E by a field boundary/drain running N-S. Curving linear earthworks visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph in field 80m to SW and W may be related to the platform ringfort. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 28 May 2018

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