LARGE RATH in Lisalbanagh

Lisalbanagh in County Derry holds a large rath, an earthwork so old it predates every written history of the region. The distinction between a farmyard boundary and a fortress wall dissolves when moss swallows the stone and rain erodes the angle. A rath of that size demands more than a household; it demands a hierarchy, a treasury, a reason for fear. The ground still carries the shape of that demand even when every name and event has vanished into the green dark.