What is recorded here

Ballystockart is a post-medieval settlement in County Down where human life clustered before modern boundaries arrived. The name repeats itself because the place and the settlement share one identity. People likely lived, worked and died there during centuries when regional records stayed silent. What is certain is that the ground held a settlement, not an empty field, and the repetition of its name preserves that fact.

The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as Historic Settlement Ballystockart. Recorded period: POST-MED. The official map point was placed at the centre of the recorded archaeological site from the source map reference.

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