What is recorded here

Phil's Fort rises in Ballynaris as a mound that may be a motte or a raised rath, belonging to an uncertain span from early Christian through medieval time. It is scheduled, which means the state still treats its shape as worth keeping. Under that designation lives a simpler truth: someone built or repeated a place high enough to be seen, remembered and named.

The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as MOUND (motte? or raised rath?): PHIL'S FORT. Recorded period: UNCERTAIN; MEDIEVAL; E.CHRIST.. Recorded protection: Scheduled. The official map point was placed at the centre of the recorded archaeological site from the source map reference.

The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.