What is recorded here
Oval Rath in Moygannon, County Down, is an oval rath, a shape still visible in the land. It may have been a home, a boundary marker or a place of local authority, though no surviving detail records which. The oval form suggests deliberate construction rather than natural rise, and the region around Moygannon has long supported settled life.
The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as OVAL RATH. Recorded period: E.CHRIST.. 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
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