What is recorded here
MOUND - PLATFORM RATH? in County Antrim, Ireland, may be a ruined circular fortress, but the question mark in its own name admits the shape has blurred into legend. Clay and memory have both claimed it since the earliest surveys. A platform rath demands a border, a door, a life inside, yet the earth has taken back those facts. What remains is a hollow shape waiting for a human answer.
The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as MOUND - PLATFORM RATH?. Recorded period: UNCERTAIN. 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.
- What survives
- Recorded monument
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