What is recorded here
Rasharkin in County Antrim held a post-medieval settlement where people built, breathed and departed before modern memory arrived. The land keeps that lost activity intact, carrying the weight of hands that shaped it and lives that crossed it. What is absent from sight is not absent from the world; it is hidden inside the place, waiting to be remembered through patience and care.
The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as Historic Settlement. 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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- What survives
- Recorded monument
Places near here
ENCLOSURE and CLACHAN? in Carnfinton, RasharkinENCLOSURE and CLACHAN? · 572 yd
ENCLOSURE (unlocated) in GortaharENCLOSURE (unlocated) · 805 yd
Moneygran WoodWood · 1.8 mi
Locks PortnaCanal Structure · 2.1 mi
Kilrea BridgeBridge · 2.2 mi
CHURCH & GRAVEYARD: KILREA OLD CHURCH or KILREA O'DIAMOND in KilreaCHURCH & GRAVEYARD: KILREA OLD CHURCH or KILREA O'DIAMOND · 2.9 mi
Long MountainMountain / peak · 3.7 mi
Big Gortgole ForestForest · 4.5 mi
FORD across R. BANN & SITE OF BATTLE, 1689 (see also ANT 031:052 for opposite side of the river) in GlenoneFORD across R. BANN & SITE OF BATTLE, 1689 (see also ANT 031:052 for opposite side of the river) · 5.7 mi
CASTLE (site of): PORTGLENONE CASTLE in GarvaghyCASTLE (site of): PORTGLENONE CASTLE · 5.9 mi
Scroggy Mass RockNamed rock · 5.9 mi
TullyMountain / peak · 6.9 mi