What is recorded here
Inisloughlin holds a fort or bawn marked uncertain in the post-medieval period. The distinction between a defensive ring and a domestic enclosure still hesitates in the name itself. That hesitation suggests a place where military and civilian life blurred, perhaps a family stronghold rather than a soldier's camp. The question mark is not a failure of knowledge but an invitation to see both possibilities in the same stones.
The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as FORT - BAWN?. Recorded period: POST-MED; UNCERTAIN. The official map point was placed at the centre of the recorded archaeological site from the source map reference.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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