What is recorded here

Four or more circular huts clustered together in Ballyvoy, County Antrim, forming one of the oldest recognised settlement shapes in Northern Ireland. The exact age remains uncertain, but the repeated choice of a round plan suggests people valued a strong wall, a clear hearth and a view that returned them to the same horizon each day. They may have lived there through storms, births and quiet winters, shaping the land into a place the body could trust before a name was ever written.

The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as Occupation/ settlement site: Cluster of circular huts (min. 4). Recorded period: UNCERTAIN. The official map point was placed at the centre of the recorded archaeological site from the source map reference.

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